Andy Goldsworthy

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#am #become #cautious #fire #flames

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 to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#between #cold #depending #each #hours

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#melt #stone #unnerving #watch

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#being #interesting #sometimes #touch

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 finding snow in summer. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#about #across #come #finding #i

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

— Andy Goldsworthy

#form #mentally #once #original #out

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 from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#city #done #edge #fields #five

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 have made. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#clearly #distance #helps #i #made

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 caged, captured. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#appear #because #caged #captured #energy

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 the firing has to be abandoned. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#any #checked #debris #elements #every