James Turrell Quotes

From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I really prize and love great painting.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Art and life are inseparable.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Making art is an act of faith.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I love art and fashion.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.