James Turrell Quotes

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

I find myself fascinating.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

I don't find myself intriguing.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

Sometimes you watch yourself, and you think, 'Oh, wow.'

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.