"The artist must impose himself and his ideas on to the material in a way that uses the material sympathetically but does not use it passively. Otherwise you are only behaving like the waves. There must be a human imprint." Henry Moore
“If our story begins when desire enters us—desire that is etiologically bound to blown threshold, banishment, exile—then what is the land of wandering but the abyssal precinct of our restless, yearning soul-making?...."