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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.

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
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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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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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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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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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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'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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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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