122 Quotes by James Turrell

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

Art does, to some extent, follow economics.

At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

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.

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

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.