James Turrell Quotes
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I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.
— James Turrell
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.
— Andrew Eldritch
We create the reality in which we live.
— James Turrell
When you're O.C.D., you want the most beautiful animals.
— James Turrell
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.
— James Turrell
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
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
So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God - in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.
— Baruch Spinoza
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
— James Turrell
My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
— James Turrell
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