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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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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
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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 love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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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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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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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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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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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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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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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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