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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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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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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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