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I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
— James Turrell
Tags: make, shape, events, light

Other Quotes by "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
Tags: bread, electricity, stupid, mother
We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.
— James Turrell
Tags: vocabulary, spiritual, experience, light
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
— James Turrell
Tags: like, yourself, you, light
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
Tags: feel, go, moon, art
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
Tags: censorship, new, remember, you
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