122 Quotes by James Turrell

It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.

I want people to treasure light.

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.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

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.