Leafs Quote by Andy Goldsworthy

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface…

— Andy Goldsworthy

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 important. That’s…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through”

— Richard M. Ketchum

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

— Marcia Cross

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

— Frank Bidart

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

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break…

— Meister Eckhart

I pull my material from daily life.

— Josh Blue

The majority of my material comes from first-hand experiences, so sometimes it just has to come to me, I can't force it.

— Matt Rife

There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched…

— Jessica Stockholder

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step…

— Bonnie Hammer