American - Artist | May 6, 1943 -
One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.
James Turrell
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I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.
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I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.
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I am interested in the physicality of light itself.
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It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
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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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Art does, to some extent, follow economics.
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If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.
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If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.
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From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
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My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.
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Las Vegas is about distraction.
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