James Turrell Quotes

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• Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
• My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is…
• 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 revelation…
• 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…
• Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as…
• My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
• The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what…
• 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 been…
• I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.
• I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your…
• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
• Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile .…
• We create the reality in which we live.
• 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 with…
• I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.
• 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 the…
• 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 best…
• It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.
• We eat light, drink it in through our skins
• The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is…

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