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I take the opportunity each day offers.

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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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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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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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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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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We often forget that we are nature.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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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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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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