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James Turrell

Planets’ orbits are elliptical. It’s a very pleasing shape.

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James Turrell

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

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James Turrell

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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James Turrell

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it’s occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

– James Turrell

James Turrell

The Quakers don’t believe in music or art; they think it’s a vanity.

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James Turrell

The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There’s anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.

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James Turrell

I come from L.A. where there’s a sense of show. But that’s not a bad word in my mind. We say art ‘show,’ don’t we? ‘Show’ implies entertainment.

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James Turrell

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

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James Turrell

I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they’ve met that.

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James Turrell

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven’t given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman… Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.

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James Turrell

My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn’t do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

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James Turrell

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

– James Turrell

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