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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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