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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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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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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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.
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I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it.
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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.
