122 Quotes by James Turrell

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

We create the reality in which we live.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.