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title: "2 Use Light Quotes By James Turrell"
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> [In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/in-thinking-of-light-if-we-can-think-about-what-it-can-do-and-what-it/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/236/james-turrell-18973_attention_in-thinking-of-light-if-we-can-think-abo_496914.jpg)

> [ \[My work\] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin -… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/my-work-is-using-light-as-a-material-to-influence-or-affect-the/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

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## More by James Turrell

> [I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-am-not-an-earth-artist-i-m-totally-involved-in-the-sky/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/with-no-object-no-image-and-no-focus-what-are-you-looking-at-you-are/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [We eat light, drink it in through our skins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/we-eat-light-drink-it-in-through-our-skins/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-m-interested-that-light-has-thingness-itself-so-it-s-not-something/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-was-maybe-5-or-6-and-my-grandmother-would-begin-sitting-me-in-the/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-ve-always-felt-that-night-doesn-t-fall-night-rises-there-are-these/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/it-was-important-that-people-come-to-value-light-as-we-value-gold/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/space-has-a-way-of-looking-it-seems-like-it-has-a-presence-of-vision/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/in-thinking-of-light-if-we-can-think-about-what-it-can-do-and-what-it/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/we-live-within-this-reality-we-create-and-we-re-quite-unaware-of-how/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/to-have-a-certain-new-eight-and-a-hal-f-minute-old-light-from-the-sun/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-wanted-the-light-to-be-the-revelation-it-has-to-do-with-what-we/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/remember-technology-does-not-make-good-work-you-can-still-write-a/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/it-is-interesting-to-work-in-las-vegas-i-ve-always-thought-of-las/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

> [I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-turrell/i-m-known-as-a-light-artist-but-rather-than-be-someone-who-depicted/)

[James Turrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-turrell/)

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