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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
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Work
Reasons
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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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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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 did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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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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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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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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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