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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

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

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

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

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#early #early 20s #first #freeze #i

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 had done on it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#drawing #experimentation #far #first #had

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#hardened #liquid #mass #much #part

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#between #complex #creatively #critical #difficult