James Turrell Quotes

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

Life is just a journey.

All confessions are Odysseys.

He traveled in order to come home.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

People travel north from Barcelona, not south.