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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

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
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Isolated
Snow
Winter
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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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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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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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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