James Turrell Quotes

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

James Turrell

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LightSpacePerceptionThroughSeem

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

Jenny Lewis

ChildActorUpBeingComeVery

I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.

Max Minghella

HumanHuman BeingBeingSchizophrenic

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

Matthew Desmond

ThinkUnderstandingPovertyFix

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

Steve Chabot

DevelopmentSeeWouldLikeFunding

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Shirley Temple

WorkDayResponsibleSeventeenHour

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

Ron White

MeDownWriteMexicoWhateverOut

All leading brands started with and still possess the DNA of innovation and creativity, but it is often limited to one or two areas such as design or engineering. For a company to prosper, it must inject this innovative spirit into every aspect of the business.

Dinesh Paliwal

BusinessInnovationCreativityDesign

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

Chris Bohjalian

DayThreeLettersKindTwoAnswer

I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.

Cornelia Parker

ArtFireFeelWantFirstOut

It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.

Bruce Forsyth

BeautifulWomanMeBeautiful Woman

Books do furnish a room.

Anthony Powell

RoomBooksFurnish

I don't think I'm the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I'm the only person saying it, and I think that scares people.

Augustus Sol Invictus

PeopleSayingThinkPersonComing

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