"I wanted the light to be the revelation.……" — James Turrell
"I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light."
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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 make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my…
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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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More Light Quotes
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number…
— Margaret Atwood
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded…
— Irving Babbitt
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
— Michele Bachmann
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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
— Michele Bachmann
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
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