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James Turrell Quotes

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of Picture Quote #1

I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It’s one of the best seats in the house Picture Quote #1

[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see Picture Quote #1

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of Picture Quote #1

We create the reality in which we live Picture Quote #1

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation Picture Quote #1

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I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises Picture Quote #1

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question Picture Quote #1

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience Picture Quote #1

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 work be light Picture Quote #1

I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It’s one of the best seats in the house Picture Quote #1

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects Picture Quote #1

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 generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky Picture Quote #1

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light Picture Quote #1

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With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking Picture Quote #1

We live within this reality we create, and we’re quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing Picture Quote #1

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids Picture Quote #1

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 wanted it to do for other things, because again we’ve used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don’t really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of. (James Turrell Quotes) I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It’s one of the best seats in the house. (James Turrell Quotes) [My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see (James Turrell Quotes) I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of (James Turrell Quotes) We create the reality in which we live (James Turrell Quotes) Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation (James Turrell Quotes) I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises (James Turrell Quotes) Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question (James Turrell Quotes) Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you (James Turrell Quotes) 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 (James Turrell Quotes) I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire (James Turrell Quotes) 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 (James Turrell Quotes) My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience (James Turrell Quotes) 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 work be light (James Turrell Quotes) I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It’s one of the best seats in the house (James Turrell Quotes) It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects (James Turrell Quotes) 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 generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky (James Turrell Quotes) I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light (James Turrell Quotes) With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking (James Turrell Quotes) We live within this reality we create, and we’re quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing (James Turrell Quotes) Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids (James Turrell Quotes) 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 wanted it to do for other things, because again we’ve used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don’t really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules (James Turrell Quotes) 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 (James Turrell Quotes)