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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
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Subversive
Quiet
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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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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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
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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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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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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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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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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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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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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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