James Turrell

My works are about light in the sense that light is present and there; the work is made of light. It ...

[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that ...

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

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked m ...

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is ...

When you're O.C.D., you want the most beautiful animals.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

We create the reality in which we live.

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

I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold i ...

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises.

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

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

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of ...