Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

It's the story that counts.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

I get bored in Hollywood.

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.

Variety is the key to not being bored.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me, but it does get old for me when my audience is just only interested in something they've already heard.

I like whatever I'm doing to have depth.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.