James Turrell Quotes

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

James Turrell

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• We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Future
  • Community
  • Space

• In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Moon

• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Never
  • Sun
  • Gallery

• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Strong

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Love
  • Sun
  • Find

• My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Nice
  • Moments
  • Fire

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Woman

• I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Want
  • Stubborn
  • Achieving

• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Detail

• Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Together
  • Help
  • Moon

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Morning
  • Sun
  • Looks

• There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Faces
  • Shining
  • Stability

• I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.

  

  Bob Latta
  • Life
  • Trust

• Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Claims
  • Exact

• I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

  

  James Turrell
  • Sun
  • Moon