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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

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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Follow
Plans
Design
Sense
Something
Mapping
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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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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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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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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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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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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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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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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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