James Turrell Quotes
At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
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My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
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At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.
