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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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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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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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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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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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 can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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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