Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
