122 Quotes by James Turrell

I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it 'Tan Fascist Culture.' Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they're not.

We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

There's truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.