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" I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit. "
James Turrell
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" The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places. "
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" I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction. "
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" 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. "
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" I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me. "
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" 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. "
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" I sell blue sky and coloured air. "
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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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" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "
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" I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see. "
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" You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall. "
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" All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now. "
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" Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light. "
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