James Turrell

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

— James Turrell

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

— James Turrell

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

— 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…

— James Turrell

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother,…

— 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…

— James Turrell

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

— James Turrell

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is…

— James Turrell

In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not…

— 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…

— 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…

— James Turrell

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

— James Turrell

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just…

— 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…

— 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…

— James Turrell

I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light…

— James Turrell

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

— James Turrell

We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically.…

— James Turrell

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light…

— James Turrell

[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to…

— James Turrell

We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see…

— James Turrell

My works are about light in the sense that light is present and there; the work is made of light. It's not…

— James Turrell

I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is…

— James Turrell

We create the reality in which we live.

— James Turrell

The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that…

— James Turrell