"I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so……" — 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 becomes a revelation in itself."
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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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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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We create the reality in which we live.
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