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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
Things
Underwritten
Sustains
Although
Beauty
Pain
Fear

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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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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’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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