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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
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
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Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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 think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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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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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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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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 are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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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 to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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