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Complete control can be the death of a work.

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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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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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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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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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.
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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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.
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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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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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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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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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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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