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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
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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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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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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