122 Quotes by James Turrell

We eat light, drink it in through our skins.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

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

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

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.

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

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

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.