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There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

~James Turrell

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I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

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I was waiting for L.A. to always become something important. I gave up... I left in 1974.

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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

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It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

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I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

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There aren't many artists who can feel sorry for me.

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To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

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I am involved in the architecture of space.

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There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 6th, 1943

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