122 Quotes by James Turrell

The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

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

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

I sell blue sky and coloured air.