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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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