Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Artist
Containers
Feelings
Simplicity
Ideas
Familiar
Many
Function
Direct
Levels
Simple
Snowball
Use
Container
More quotes by Andy Goldsworthy
I take the opportunity each day offers.
Andy Goldsworthy
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy
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.
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
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Andy Goldsworthy
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
Andy Goldsworthy
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
Andy Goldsworthy
We often forget that we are nature.
Andy Goldsworthy
Art is not a career - it's a life.
Andy Goldsworthy
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Andy Goldsworthy
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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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.
Andy Goldsworthy
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
Andy Goldsworthy
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
Andy Goldsworthy
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
Andy Goldsworthy
If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
Andy Goldsworthy
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Andy Goldsworthy
Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
Andy Goldsworthy
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
Andy Goldsworthy
My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
Andy Goldsworthy
