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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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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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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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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 enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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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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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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