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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

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
Dangerous
Difficult
Nature
Beautiful
Unnerving

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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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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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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
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