Andy Goldsworthy

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is…

— Andy Goldsworthy

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas…

— Andy Goldsworthy

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

— Andy Goldsworthy

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature…

— Andy Goldsworthy

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The early firings contained many stones.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

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

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as…

— Andy Goldsworthy

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were…

— Andy Goldsworthy

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than…

— Andy Goldsworthy

For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one…

— Andy Goldsworthy

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.…

— Andy Goldsworthy

In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood.…

— Andy Goldsworthy

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

— Andy Goldsworthy