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Andy Goldsworthy Inspirational Quotes (100)

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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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