"The first stone was just tried in the……" — Andy Goldsworthy
"The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it."
—
Andy Goldsworthy
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
70 Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy has 70 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
-
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly…
-
Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one…
-
The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things.…
-
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that…
-
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through…
-
When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them…
-
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas.…
-
For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say…
-
My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film,…
-
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past…
-
Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
See all 70 quotes by Andy Goldsworthy »
More Drawing Quotes
This quote is filed under Drawing Quotes,
one of 1,222 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
-
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
— John James Audubon
-
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
— John James Audubon
-
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
-
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
— Balthus
-
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
— Iain Banks
-
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
— Scott Adams
-
One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's…
— Scott Adams
-
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
-
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
— John Berger
-
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
— Victoria Beckham
See all 1,222 Drawing Quotes »