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James Turrell

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Light, Records, Painting, Material, Tradition
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Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Light, Vision, Revelations, Reveals, Revelation

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.

Deliciousness, Light, Like, Order, Seeing, Sweet

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Becomes, Desire, Experience, See, Situation, Take

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.

Light, Like, Powerful, Primal, Situations, Space

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

Focus, Objects, Looking, Image, Object
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