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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.

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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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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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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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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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