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"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"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?"
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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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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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
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"I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion."
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"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."
Work
"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."
Energy
"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."
Being
"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
"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."
Quality
"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store."
Work
"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
"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."
Nature
"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
People
"Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose."
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