Other fish artists’ thoughts on fish:
Fish are a joy for people both in the water and in the jar. Humans like fish too much, and that’s why ecosystems are destabilizing.
– Mikko Sauli
A philosopher of the past fishing, sleepless in the white night.
– Liisa Karintaus
What is hard in us? It is armlessness, leglessness, muteness, silence, darkness, dampness, passivity, archaism and immobility. Man meets himself in the eyes of a fish. The image of a fish is the image of a person.
– Siiri Haarla
Often already as children we adopt the traditions and symbolism related to fishing. Generation after generation fishes as it has always been fished.
– Melina Paakkonen
As a resting place, the home of a fish.
– Maija Helasvuo
The fish, ikhtys in Greek, was the creed of the early Christians and one of the oldest Christian symbols. According to one church father, the Jesus fish is a big fish and Christians are a bunch of small fish.
– Ilkka Sariola
In the dark, in the light, swimming.
– Mikko Paakkonen
Fish is a beautiful movement.
– Riikka Laitinen
Long-nosed and large-mouthed, that’s how the pike has always been. Self-contained and natural from a young age.
– Outimaija Hakala
