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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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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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I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
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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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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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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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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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