“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.” LightRichRecordsSeeingPaintingMaterialsTradition Book:Occluded front, James Turrell Source: Occluded front, James Turrell
“In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don't really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules.” PeopleIfsThinkingDifferentUseLightMightWantedUsedSpeakSoundCan DoPayAttentionFiguresPaintingDifferent Relationships Author:James Turrell
“It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.” PeopleImportantLightValuesObjectsPaintingGoldSilverGold And Silver Author:James Turrell
