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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

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
Heat
Stones
Source
Fire
Working
Returning
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Stone

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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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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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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.
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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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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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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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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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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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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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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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