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James Turrell Quotes

It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

James Turrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 6, 1943

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Myself People Talking Find Go See

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

Jessie Ware

Feel Artist Know Say More Singer

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

John Bruton

Fear Cannot States Retaliation

It would be too glib, not a hundred per cent true, to say that my father's career as a banker was what made me a writer. But it would be slightly true, and it was certainly the case that his work as a banker made me see that the trade-offs people make between their work and their lives are often badly skewed.

John Lanchester

Work Father People Me Career True

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

Michael Caine

Job Broken Name You Born First

Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was hardly wondrous at all, less a heroic warrior than the tomboyish girl next door. It was no longer clear whether she was meant to empower the girls or captivate the boys.

Amanda Foreman

Girl Woman Door Warrior Wonder She

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Doug Larson

Joy Nice Others Imperfect Being

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

Davy Jones

You Know Now Used Heartthrob

I'm known to be aggressively early.

Chris Gardner

Early Known

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Anne Baxter

Unity Charity Liberty Things

The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.

Piet Mondrian

Nature Sky I Am Now Without Natural

I like a lot to watch Real Madrid and Barcelona, which are my favourite teams in La Liga.

Philippe Coutinho

Real Watch Barcelona Like Madrid

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

Martin Filler

Art Past More Need Obscure Take