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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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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 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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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 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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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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