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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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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
Storm
Lays
Surface
Rain
Whatever
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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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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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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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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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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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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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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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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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