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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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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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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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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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