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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
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for 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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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