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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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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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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When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
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I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
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To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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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.
