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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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 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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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
Andy Goldsworthy
I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
Andy Goldsworthy
At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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