I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by… — 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
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in… — 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
I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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… — 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
