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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

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
Andrew Goldsworthy
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I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
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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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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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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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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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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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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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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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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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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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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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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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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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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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