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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

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 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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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
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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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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 love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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 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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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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