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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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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
Projects
Large
Commissions
Works
Sculptures
Source
Sculpture
Bigs
Scale
Scales
Main
Income

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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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 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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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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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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 reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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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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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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