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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."
"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."
"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."
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