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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
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Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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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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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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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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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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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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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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