--- title: "12 Materials Quotes By Andy Goldsworthy" description: "12 Materials quotes by Andy Goldsworthy. Plus more from Andy Goldsworthy and more Materials sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/andy-goldsworthy-4466_edits_i-can-t-edit-the-materials-i-work-with-m_2461907.png" --- > [I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-can-t-edit-the-materials-i-work-with-my-remit-is-to-work-with-2/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/andy-goldsworthy-4466_edits_i-can-t-edit-the-materials-i-work-with-m_2461907.png) > [Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/some-of-the-snowballs-have-a-kind-of-animal-energy-not-just-because/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/046/andy-goldsworthy-4466_animal_some-of-the-snowballs-have-a-kind-of-ani_628535.png) > [I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-can-t-edit-the-materials-i-work-with-my-remit-is-to-work-with/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/andy-goldsworthy-4466_beautiful_i-can-t-edit-the-materials-i-work-with-m_1968917.png) > [Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/understanding-the-materials-i-work-with-gives-me-a-deeper/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/andy-goldsworthy-4466_deeper_understanding-the-materials-i-work-with_216955.png) > [In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/in-contact-with-materials-i-can-see-so-much-more-with-my-hands-than-i/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f00/andy-goldsworthy-4466_contact_in-contact-with-materials-i-can-see-so-m_2196925.jpg) > [When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/when-i-m-working-with-materials-it-s-not-just-the-leaf-or-the-stone/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75c/andy-goldsworthy-4466_behinds_when-i-m-working-with-materials-it-s-not_2729281.png) > [I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-want-to-get-under-the-surface-when-i-work-with-a-leaf-rock-stick-it/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d86/andy-goldsworthy-4466_leaf_i-want-to-get-under-the-surface-when-i-w_1872783.jpg) > [The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/the-process-of-growth-is-obviously-critical-to-my-understanding-of/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/andy-goldsworthy-4466_compromise_the-process-of-growth-is-obviously-criti_1320130.jpg) > [I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-have-to-understand-the-nature-of-change-and-i-cannot-just-work-with/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b0/andy-goldsworthy-4466_change_i-have-to-understand-the-nature-of-chang_336864.png) > [Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/looking-touching-material-place-and-form-are-all-inseparable-from-the/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/andy-goldsworthy-4466_calm_looking-touching-material-place-and-form_1283539.jpg) > [For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/for-me-looking-touching-material-place-and-form-are-all-inseparable/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d38/andy-goldsworthy-4466_branches_for-me-looking-touching-material-place-a_2128476.png) > [Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/movement-change-light-growth-and-decay-are-the-lifeblood-of-nature/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/andy-goldsworthy-4466_art_movement-change-light-growth-and-decay-a_2180019.jpg) ## Other authors on Materials ## More by Andy Goldsworthy > [Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/even-in-winter-an-isolated-patch-of-snow-has-a-special-quality/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/if-i-had-to-describe-my-work-in-one-word-that-word-would-be-time/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/winter-makes-a-bridge-between-one-year-and-another-and-in-this-case/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/understanding-the-materials-i-work-with-gives-me-a-deeper/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-love-the-winter-well-i-love-all-the-seasons-but-the-winter-is/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/time-gives-growth-it-gives-continuity-and-it-gives-change-and-in-the/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/sometimes-you-need-to-stop-doing-something-to-really-see-it-afresh/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-ve-laid-down-in-dried-up-streambeds-leaving-a-shadow-and-then-five/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/when-i-do-the-permanent-projects-or-the-big-projects-when-a-work-is/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/nature-for-me-is-raw-and-dangerous-and-difficult-and-beautiful-and/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/ephemeral-work-made-outside-for-and-about-a-day-lies-at-the-core-of/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/i-have-to-understand-the-nature-of-change-and-i-cannot-just-work-with/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/design-implies-a-sense-of-mapping-something-out-and-then-you-follow/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/the-reason-why-the-stone-is-red-is-its-iron-content-which-is-also-why/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) > [It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-goldsworthy/it-s-frightening-and-unnerving-to-watch-a-stone-melt/) [Andy Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-goldsworthy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/materials/andy-goldsworthy/#itemlist", "name": "12 Materials Quotes By Andy Goldsworthy", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I can't edit the materials I work with. 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