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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
Andy Goldsworthy
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
Andy Goldsworthy
When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
Andy Goldsworthy
I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
Andy Goldsworthy
I take the opportunity each day offers.
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