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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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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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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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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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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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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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