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“Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Source : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.263, Univ of California Press
#Garden Quotes
#Retreat Quotes
#Certain Quotes
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“The present order is the disorder of the future.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Source : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.53, Univ of California Press
#Order Quotes
#Disorder Quotes
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“I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Garden Quotes
#People Quotes
#Collaboration Quotes
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“However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Thinking Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#World Quotes
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“If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Mean Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
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“No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Order Quotes
#People Quotes
#Expectations Quotes
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“But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Ideas Quotes
#Chance Quotes
#Concrete Quotes
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“But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Writing Quotes
#Muse Quotes
#Given Quotes
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“For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Feelings Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Language Quotes
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“As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Writing Quotes
#Friendly Quotes
#Sometimes Quotes
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“But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Artist Quotes
#Marijuana Quotes
#Opinion Quotes
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“I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Marijuana Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Modern Quotes
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“People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#People Quotes
#Challenges Quotes
#Annoying Quotes
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“I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Past Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Different Quotes
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“Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Garden Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Sparta Quotes
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“My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Garden Quotes
#Law Quotes
#World Quotes
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“What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.”
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
#Tree Quotes
#Events Quotes
#Stones Quotes
