James Turrell Quotes

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.

For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. It's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. It's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. I feel like I've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because I don't want to become an embittered asshole.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

I think it's one of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make them think about their lives, or make them laugh or make them cry or make them understand something. Or just make them feel something because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?