We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
The early firings contained many stones.
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.
A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
Toyland, toyland. . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.
To move the world we must move ourselves.