Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

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• 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 what it is that I…
• Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The…
• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting…
• I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is…
• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the…
• 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 what…
• Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge…
• For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another…
• My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no…
• One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning…
• Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
• People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
• The early firings contained many stones.
• A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is…
• I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing.…
• There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
• I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
• Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
• When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

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