James Turrell Quotes

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Good dreams are better than films or books.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

It's not called the Theatre of Dreams for nothing.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

A word only writes its night and rides its dream.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

To sleep perchance to dream

Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.