James Turrell Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

  James Turrell

  Space, Waiting, Vision

• Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

  James Turrell

  Light, Vision, Revelations

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

• We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.

  James Turrell

  Sweet, Light, Order

• We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don’t change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.

  James Turrell

  Thinking, Color, Sky

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

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