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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

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
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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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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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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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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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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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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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We often forget that we are nature.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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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 are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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