J Serra Quotes

#1. I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

Richard Serra

#2. When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

Richard Serra

#3. But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

Richard Serra

#4. To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Richard Serra

#5. Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#6. These days in movies you can always come back to a location or do an insert or do something, so that's not even an issue any more. But coming back every day to the same plane, it messes with your head.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#7. I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

Junipero Serra

#8. Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.

Junipero Serra

#9. When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#10. Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

Richard Serra

#11. She was magic, a direct light - the kind that seeps through in places that didn't exist inside him anymore. The light he thought he lost forever, but Nick realized we don't lose the light, we absorb it, and with Olivia he wanted to absorb every small speck of it.

Maria La Serra

#12. Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

#13. I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

Richard Serra

#14. You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#15. They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

Richard Serra

#16. Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

Barry Bonds

#17. I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#18. We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

Junipero Serra

#19. I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#20. We are all on stage, my dear. Sometimes we forget our lines, but luckily an offstage helper can whisper our lines to us until we get back on track.

Maria La Serra

#21. You're sure this is what you want?" I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells
"I'm sure"
"Then I'll find a way

Sabaa Tahir

#22. Dear girl with the red scarf,
Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.
Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.

Maria La Serra

#23. Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Richard Serra

#24. There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

Serra Elinsen

#25. If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#26. Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

Richard Serra

#27. Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#28. Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Richard Serra

#29. Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good.
To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814

Thomas Jefferson

#30. But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Richard Serra

#31. But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Richard Serra

#32. If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns ... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.

Richard Serra