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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

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
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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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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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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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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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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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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 art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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