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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. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#fire #heat #i #i am #origin

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#been #better #between #connections #could

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. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#am #become #cautious #fire #flames

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. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#appear #because #caged #captured #energy

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#early #early 20s #first #freeze #i

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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