Top 86 Serra Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.
Janio Quadros
#3. Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.
Charlie Rose
#4. 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
#5. I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It's something you need to see for yourself.
Maria La Serra
#6. Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how one walks through a piece and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.
Richard Serra
#7. The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
Junipero Serra
#8. I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#9. We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.
Junipero Serra
#10. But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
Richard Serra
#11. Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
Richard Serra
#12. The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
Richard Serra
#13. Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know. They're just coming out.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#14. Yes, she is." His eyes remained on Olivia, but she wasn't aware he was watching her. "With art, I believe anything created with profound heart is captured compulsively beautifully.
Maria La Serra
#15. Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey.
Matt Serra
#16. He looked at me the way you'd look at a poodle that suddenly started reciting Hamlet.
Serra Elinsen
#18. The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. From this time to this time, you can use that part, and you have to hit them and it gets very stressful.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#19. Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
Junipero Serra
#20. Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.
Matt Serra
#21. I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was more mysterious, and delay until the end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#22. Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
Richard Serra
#23. How can this be real?" I whispered. "I mean you ... you ... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would ... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?"
"Try and stop me.
Serra Elinsen
#24. What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.
Richard Serra
#25. 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
#26. It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs ... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.
Richard Serra
#27. The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.
Junipero Serra
#28. I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
Richard Serra
#29. Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.
Sabaa Tahir
#30. Dear girl with the red scarf,
People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won't give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.
-Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#31. As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
Junipero Serra
#32. If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
Richard Serra
#33. It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#34. I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#35. Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.
Matt Serra
#36. On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Richard Serra
#37. The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
Richard Serra
#38. When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#39. Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.
Richard Serra
#40. I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#41. Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.
Richard Serra
#42. I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Richard Serra
#43. I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
Richard Serra
#44. You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane which was very exciting.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#45. Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
Richard Serra
#46. There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.
Serra Elinsen
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
Richard Serra
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
Richard Serra
#57. Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Junipero Serra
#58. If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#59. 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
#60. Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
Richard Serra
#67. I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
Richard Serra
#69. Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You're ... you're tearing me apart!
Serra Elinsen
#70. And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
Richard Serra
#71. Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#72. Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
Junipero Serra
#73. The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.
Richard Serra
#74. We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.
Junipero Serra
#75. I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
Richard Serra
#76. For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#77. Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#78. But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
Richard Serra
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra
#83. 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
#84. When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#85. Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.
Richard Serra
#86. 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
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