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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

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
Quiet
Working
Enjoy
Artist
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Introvert
Subversive

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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 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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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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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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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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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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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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