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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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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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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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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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 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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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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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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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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