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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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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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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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 main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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