Antony Gormley Quotes

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Antony Gormley

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

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• If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

  

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

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• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

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• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

  

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• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

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• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

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• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

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• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

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• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

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• It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

  

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• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

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• For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

  

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• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

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• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

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• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

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• The opportunity ahead of us in terms of transforming how we design and build, how we manufacture, is even greater than some of the product innovation that we're going to bring to the table.

  

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• My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.

  

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• All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

  

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• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  

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• I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Space