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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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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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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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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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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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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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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
Andy Goldsworthy