Andy Goldsworthy

We often forget that we are nature...

— Andy Goldsworthy

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

— Andy Goldsworthy

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I take the opportunity each day offers.

— Andy Goldsworthy

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

— Andy Goldsworthy

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

— Andy Goldsworthy

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't…

— Andy Goldsworthy

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas…

— Andy Goldsworthy

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood.…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.…

— Andy Goldsworthy

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an…

— Andy Goldsworthy

When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole…

— Andy Goldsworthy

For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as…

— Andy Goldsworthy

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom.…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The early firings contained many stones.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

— Andy Goldsworthy