James Turrell Quotes

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

James Turrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

EyesLightFeelingTouchOutOnly

I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.

Jenifer Lewis

LifeControlMy LifeYouKnowStage

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

John Lahr

EducationExperienceWalkTheatre

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

John Lee Hancock

HopeNowMoviesNow And ThenJust

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

NatureBeautyQualityMenTreesAir

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Sigmar Gabriel

LifeLiveBusinessTodayPolitics

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

Tony Curtis

TelevisionUpBeenMovieEvery

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

TodaySocietyGenerationWealthOver

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

Monica Lewinsky

TryingProtectDessertHimOutJust

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

TimeFireI AmRiverMeTiger

I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.

Dominique Moceanu

GymTurnLotCouldThingHad

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

Dean Kamen

PeopleMeAdviceProblemSolution

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

Debbie Harry

GoodMusicMorningGreatLooking

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by James Turrell