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

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My works are about light in the sense that light is present and there; the work is made of light. It's not about light or a record of it, but it is light. Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself revelation.

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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile... I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

James Turrell

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

James Turrell

James Turrell

Born: May 6, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: James Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984.
Known for:
  1. The Light Inside (1999)
  2. Acton (1976)
  3. Bridget's Bardo (2008)
  4. Open Sky Garden (1991)
  5. Stuck Red/Stuck Blue (1970)

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