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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.

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
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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to 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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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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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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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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