I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
From James Turrell
When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'
This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
I come from L.A. where there's a sense of show. But that's not a bad word in my mind. We say art 'show,' don't we? 'Show' implies entertainment.
The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.
If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.
I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.
The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.
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