I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. — 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
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving. — 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
I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement. — 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
The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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… — 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
