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Andy Goldsworthy

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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 many levels.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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


— Andy Goldsworthy


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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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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.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.


— Andy Goldsworthy


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About Andy Goldsworthy






Did you know about Andy Goldsworthy?

(1996).  
Goldsworthy Andy; Jerry L. London: Viking.

Andy Goldsworthy OBE (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.

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