James Turrell

James Turrell

06-May-1943


United States


Artist

QUOTES BY James Turrell


We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

I sell blue sky and coloured air.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

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.

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

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