#mo

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize. ↗

— Danny Strong

#i #i think #just #know #lot

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

— Al Goldstein

#disgusting #effort #make #more #our

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

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

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#about #across #come #finding #i

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#clearly #distance #helps #i #made

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 first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#drawing #experimentation #far #first #had

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#break #breaking #flesh #happens #like