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James Turrell Quotes: Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
         

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.


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



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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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