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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
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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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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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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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
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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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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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