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Andy Goldsworthy

"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."

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"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."

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Akiroq Brost

"Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests."

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"The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone."

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"To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,by what can't be it must be challenged..."

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"People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be in polar opposite proportion to the positive that you are destined to thrive in. Conquer the negative, and thrive in the positive."

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"They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight."

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"You are always going to meet disturbances outside yourself, it's the experience of living ~ There will be dark days and there will be days of laughter and somewhere in between you'll create a healthy balance within yourself and call it a life. We can't stop the storm, but we can learn to watch it pass."

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"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense."

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"The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willing to surrender to the flow of life at any time, but it is there as a brake on a car, and our health is a brake. We put brakes on, against our temperament. he said, "Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it."

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"The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos."

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"I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali."

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Andy Goldsworthy
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

Art

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Andy Goldsworthy
"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

Difference

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Andy Goldsworthy
"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."

Being

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Andy Goldsworthy
"The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red."

Blood

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Andy Goldsworthy
"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."

Creativity

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Andy Goldsworthy
"The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it."

Art

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Andy Goldsworthy
"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."

Fire

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Andy Goldsworthy
"People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there."

People

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Andy Goldsworthy
"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."

Work

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"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."

Building

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