James Turrell Quotes

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Nothing is important.

The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in the finer points of puffed rice, it murders appetite.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

I do have a rule about how much I will take on - the last thing you want is to be on TV too much and for people to be sick of you.

I want people to treasure light.

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Too much of something is never good.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

There is no such thing as an unimportant day.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.