James Turrell Quotes

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

James Turrell

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Development
  • Modern

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Book
  • Study
  • Thought

• I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Sky
  • Hat

• If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sky

• All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Die
  • Alone
  • Brain

• Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Writing

• And in the morning when the sun rise.Look in the water, see the blue sky.As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Heaven

• Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • God
  • Religious
  • Wonder

• A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Water
  • Sky
  • Stars

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Place
  • Not Exist

• Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Death
  • Injustice
  • Suffered

• We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

  

  James Turrell
  • Sky