James Turrell Quotes

Light is the symbol of truth.

I like to open people's eyes.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Truths kindle light for truths.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

My first thought is always of light.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.