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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
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.
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.