#in

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#effect #indifference #only #reality #universe

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#disgusting #effort #make #more #our

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#our #raw #sex #stock #trade

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#because #fight #fighters #fights #frankly

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i

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

#difference #great #great ideas #had #huge

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. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#after #building #came #collecting #day

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. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#attempt #beneath #energy #get #i

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#confrontation #i #part #project #purpose

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