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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

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
Exploring
Drawing
Essence
Line
Lines
Space
Art

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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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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 not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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 think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
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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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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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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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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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