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

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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 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 early firings contained many stones.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
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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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