James Turrell

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

— James Turrell

My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

— James Turrell

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

— James Turrell

I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

— James Turrell

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

— James Turrell

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

— James Turrell

I am involved in the architecture of space.

— James Turrell

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

— James Turrell

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

— James Turrell

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

— James Turrell