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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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 leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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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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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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