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It's possible to gather light that's older than our solar system.

~James Turrell

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If you take blue paint and yellow paint and you mix them, you get green paint. But if you take blue light and yellow light and mix them, you get white light. This is a shock to most people.

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I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.

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I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

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This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.

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We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

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I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

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I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.

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Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 6th, 1943

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