I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's… — 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
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
Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it… — 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
