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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

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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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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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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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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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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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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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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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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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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.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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