It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on … - James Turrell

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Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

James Turrell

It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L. A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture, it's a town of entertainment.

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

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My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile. . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

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With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

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