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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.
— James Turrell
Tags: time, you, light, best

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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.
— 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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