122 Quotes by James Turrell

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

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

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.