"I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting."

--

Ptolemy

#Knowing Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Sharks Quotes

“Generosity is only benevolence in practice.”
“I'm building a dream with elevators in it.”
“Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.”
“Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.”
“Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.”
“It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.”
“Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.”
“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.

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