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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

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
City
Cities
Nature
Feel
Feels
People
Pavement

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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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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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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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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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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