James Turrell Quotes
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Las Vegas is about distraction.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
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In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.
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I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.
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I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.
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If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.
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I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.
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I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
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There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.
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I want people to treasure light.
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The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
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I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.
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This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
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There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.
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We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.
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I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.
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I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
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My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.
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Light knows when you're looking at it.
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I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
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I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
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This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.