"I make spaces that apprehend light for our……" — 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 more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing."
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James Turrell
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27 Quotes by James Turrell
James Turrell has 27 quotes on this site.
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Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
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My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is…
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I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at,…
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In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about…
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Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku…
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My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your…
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The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is…
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Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it,…
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I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.
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I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from…
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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its…
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We create the reality in which we live.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to…
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
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It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the…
— Alan K. Simpson
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To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never…
— George Washington
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God…
— Benjamin Franklin
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We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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