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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
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Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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