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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

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
Afresh
Stop
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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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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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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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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 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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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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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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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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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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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