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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."
"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."
"Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work."
"I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work."
"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."
"I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball."
"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."
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