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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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Land Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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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 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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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 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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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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 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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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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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 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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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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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