"Light is a powerful substance. We have a……" — James Turrell
"Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space."
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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 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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We create the reality in which we live.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more…
— Sandra Bullock
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Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one…
— Sandra Bullock
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play…
— Leo Buscaglia
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