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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
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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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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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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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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