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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
— 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
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
— Andy Goldsworthy
When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
— Andy Goldsworthy
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
— Andy Goldsworthy
It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
— Andy Goldsworthy
If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The early firings contained many stones.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
— Andy Goldsworthy
If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
— 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 have made.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
— Andy Goldsworthy
My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
— Andy Goldsworthy
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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
The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
— Andy Goldsworthy
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Art is not a career - it's a life.
— Andy Goldsworthy
It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Complete control can be the death of a work.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
— Andy Goldsworthy
There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
— Andy Goldsworthy
We often forget that we are nature ...
— Andy Goldsworthy
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I take the opportunity each day offers.
— Andy Goldsworthy
People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
— Andy Goldsworthy
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
— Andy Goldsworthy
When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
— Andy Goldsworthy
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
— Andy Goldsworthy
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
— Andy Goldsworthy
