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Top 20 James Turrell Quotes (2025 Update)

James Turrell Quote: “It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.”

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

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James Turrell Quote: “My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light – it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.”

2. “My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light – it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.”

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James Turrell Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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

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

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James Turrell Quote: “We create the reality in which we live.”

5. “We create the reality in which we live.”

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James Turrell Quote: “The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.”

6. “The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.”

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James Turrell Quote: “We live within this reality we create, and we’re quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.”

7. “We live within this reality we create, and we’re quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.”

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James Turrell Quote: “I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.”

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

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James Turrell Quote: “I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.”

9. “I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.”

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

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

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James Turrell Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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James Turrell Quote: “With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.”

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

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James Turrell Quote: “I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It’s one of the best seats in the house.”

13. “I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It’s one of the best seats in the house.”

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James Turrell Quote: “We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don’t change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.”

14. “We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don’t change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.”

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James Turrell Quote: “I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.”

15. “I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.”

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James Turrell Quote: “My works are about light in the sense that light is present and there; the work is made of light. It’s not about light or a record of it, but it is light. Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself revelation.”

16. “My works are about light in the sense that light is present and there; the work is made of light. It’s not about light or a record of it, but it is light. Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself revelation.”

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James Turrell Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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James Turrell Quote: “I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.”

18. “I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.”

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James Turrell Quote: “We eat light, drink it in through our skins.”

19. “We eat light, drink it in through our skins.”

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James Turrell Quote: “Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.”

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

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James Turrell Quote: “I am not an Earth artist, I’m totally involved in the sky.”

21. “I am not an Earth artist, I’m totally involved in the sky.”

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James Turrell Quote: “To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.”

22. “To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.”

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James Turrell Quote: “I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.”

23. “I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.”

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