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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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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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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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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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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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 soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
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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 take the opportunity each day offers.
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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 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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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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