Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy

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 not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

Different

Potatoes

Thinking

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Historical

Memories

Stones

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Art

Land

Needs

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 of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

Ice

Rocks

Trying

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.

Aging

Art

Thinking

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Art

Ephemeral

Lying

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

Snow

Special

Winter

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.

Country

New York

People

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. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn’t walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

Beautiful

Harsh

Minutes

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

Growth

Stones

Two

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Aging

Always Trying

Animal

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Art

Artist

Balance

Beautiful

Bigs

Blood

British

Cameras

Childhood

Climate

Country

Dangerous

Decay

Differences

Different

Difficult

Discipline

Distance

Drawing

Dying

Energy

Ephemeral

Essence

Eye

Fascinating

Finals

Finished

Fire

Firsts

Flames

Forever

Forget

Form

Giving

Grows

Growth

Hands

Harsh

Heart

Heat

Historical

Ice

Ice And Snow

Ideas

Ifs

Importance

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Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy

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 not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

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 of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

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.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

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

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.

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. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn’t walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

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