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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
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Beauty
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There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
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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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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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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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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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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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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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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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Complete control can be the death of a 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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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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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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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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