I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.
James TurrellRead
We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.
Interpretation
We unknowingly influence the world around us through our thoughts and actions.
James Turrell's quote highlights the concept that our perceptions and actions play a significant role in shaping reality, often without our conscious awareness. It suggests that we are co-creators of our environment and experiences, though many of us remain oblivious to the impact we have on the world and the intricate connections we share with it.
In practice
In a discussion about mindfulness, this quote can be used to illustrate the unseen impacts of our daily choices.
I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.
It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.
There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.
Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, itβs been waiting for you.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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