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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
Able
Live
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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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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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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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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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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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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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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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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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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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