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Work Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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.
- When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
- Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
- I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
- It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick…
- I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back…
- Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are…
- I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way…
- 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…
- 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…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle