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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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Complete control can be the death of a 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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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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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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