I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked thatโthis idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.
James TurrellRemember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
James TurrellWith no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
James TurrellThe 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.
James Turrell