Quotes by James Turrell

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 dont feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

Ive always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

You cant stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didnt work at Hadrians Wall. The Great Wall of China didnt work. The Berlin Wall.

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

Were 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.

Theres traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, thats the last thing on an artists mind.