Best quotes by James Turrell on Work

Checkout quotes by James Turrell on Work

• ‟ Art history is littered with work that involves light.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

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• ‟ I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.

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