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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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