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James Turrell Quotes: In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
         

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


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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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My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

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I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.



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Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.



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I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.



I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.



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We create the reality in which we live.





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