“We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.” FeelsLittlesFeelingsLightOrderSpaceVisionSeeingSweetDrinkSkinsAweExposureSensuous Author:James Turrell
“The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what I started with as an idea. But then making this in terms of the sizing and the use that was asked for by Live Oak Meeting- I mean it's a very traditional form, except it's convertible. The top opens, and it makes a sky space where sky is really brought down to you; your awareness of it is made quite different. It was a little bit of a novel idea, that it's a roof that opens.” MeanLittlesLongMadeIdeasDifferentUseFormHouseBitsTermSpaceNovelSkyAwarenessLittle BitMeetingsTraditionalRoofOaksQuakerGunpowder Author:James Turrell
“Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.” WaySeemsWaitingSpaceVisionWaiting For You Author:James Turrell
“I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.” WayLightSeemsSpaceCreativitySeeingProductsPerceptionPhotography Author:James Turrell
“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.” FeelsLightFeltSpacePowerfulSituationConnectionsSubstanceFragilePrimal Book:Occluded front, James Turrell Source: Occluded front, James Turrell
“The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.” IfsDifferentLightSpaceSkyEdgesColour Author:James Turrell
