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.
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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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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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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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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.
