- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.
- Cooling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
- Big Cities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.
- Journalist
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a depressing business talking to journalist.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
- Blankets
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020