"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having……" — Andy Goldsworthy
"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."
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70 Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy has 70 quotes on this site.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly…
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Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one…
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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things.…
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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that…
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Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through…
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them…
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas.…
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For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say…
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My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film,…
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past…
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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More Abandoning Quotes
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
— Epictetus
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
— Gautama Buddha
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