James Turrell Quotes
From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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That's part of what a relationship is: you don't experience things in the same way.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.
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From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
