James Turrell Quotes
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Las Vegas is about distraction.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
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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.
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My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.
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I want people to treasure light.
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I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.
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We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.
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There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.
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I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.
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This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
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The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
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If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.
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I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.
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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.
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My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.
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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.
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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.
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One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.
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I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.
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If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.
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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.
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I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
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If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.