"Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space."

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Source : James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

James Turrell

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“Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.”
“No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”

Source : Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”
“It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."”
“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

Source : Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.237, Random House
“I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.”
“I find that stability is good for my creativity.”
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”

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