All Andy Goldsworthy Quotes
- It's art that's taught me to think and to write. Art
- Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. Childhood
- Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Isolated
- A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on… Container
- Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. Fire
- Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. Bridge
- My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city,… Appearance
- The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience. Audience
- Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear… Animal
- Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the… Abandoning
- 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 appearance… All
- I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It… All
- Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about… Across
- Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so… Abandoned
- We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to… Connection
- 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… Drawing
- I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that… Amount
- People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles… Brought
- I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the… Been
- 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… Difference