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James Turrell quotes: I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

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.

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: 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.

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: With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

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.

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: 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.

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

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

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: Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

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.

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: It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

James Turrell quotes: When you're O.C.D., you want the most beautiful animals.

When you're O.C.D., you want the most beautiful animals.

James Turrell quotes: Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

James Turrell quotes: We create the reality in which we live.

We create the reality in which we live.