122 Quotes by James Turrell

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.

Light itself is a revelation.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.

I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.