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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
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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