James Turrell Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

  James Turrell

  Light, Records, Painting

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

• In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don't really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules.

  James Turrell

  Thinking, Light, People

  "Roden Crater". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

• It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

  James Turrell

  Light, People, Important

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