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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"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."
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"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
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"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."
Family
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
Fire
"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."
Art
"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."
Art
"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."
Work
"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
Fire
"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."
Life
"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."
Work
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