Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind. James Turrell Read Quote
Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light. James Turrell Read Quote
Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it’s occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception. James Turrell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s truth in light. You can tell what elements a star is composed of and the temperature at which it burns by the light it gives off. James Turrell Read Quote
