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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.

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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
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Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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 can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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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 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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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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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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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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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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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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