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James Turrell quotes

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

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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.

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I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

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I am involved in the architecture of space.

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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.

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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.

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

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