Latest James Turrell Quotes from Interviews

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• I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

  James Turrell

  Reality, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. 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.

  James Turrell

  Vegas, Interesting, Days Off

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

  James Turrell

  Reality, World, Particular

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• [My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. 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.

  James Turrell

  Mean, Light, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com