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Light Quotes by James Turrell
- 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…
- 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…
- Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile .…
- 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'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…
- 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…
- I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
- I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I…
- We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling…
- Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell