We're made for the light of a cave and for twiligh... -James Turrell

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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James Turrell Quotes to Explore

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 j...
I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were....
I am involved in the architecture of space....
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air....
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now....
I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light....
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 ...

Experience Quotes to Explore

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experien...