American - Artist | May 6, 1943 -
If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
James Turrell
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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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The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.
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I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.
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There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.
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I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.
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At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.
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I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.
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I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
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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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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.
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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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