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Danh ngôn của James Turrell (Sứ mệnh: 1)

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 don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.
Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.
We're 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.
I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.
I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
I am involved in the architecture of space.
Art history is littered with work that involves light.
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.