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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.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

James Turrell

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

James Turrell

I sell blue sky and coloured air.

James Turrell

I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

James Turrell

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

James Turrell

If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.

James Turrell

Light itself is a revelation.

James Turrell

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.

James Turrell

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

James Turrell

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

James Turrell

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

James Turrell

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

James Turrell

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

James Turrell

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.

James Turrell

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.

James Turrell

At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.

James Turrell

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.

James Turrell

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

James Turrell

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

James Turrell

New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

James Turrell

This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.

James Turrell

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

James Turrell

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

James Turrell

Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

James Turrell

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

James Turrell

Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.

James Turrell

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

James Turrell

There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

James Turrell

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

James Turrell

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

James Turrell

It's possible to gather light that's older than our solar system.

James Turrell

There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.

James Turrell

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.

James Turrell

The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

James Turrell

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

James Turrell

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.

James Turrell