Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy

Snow, Childhood, Reach

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

Simple, Feelings, Ideas

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

Snow, Special, Winter

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
Andy Goldsworthy

Nature, Time, Art

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
Andy Goldsworthy

Energy, Between, Theatre

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
Andy Goldsworthy

Memories, Stone, Historical

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
Andy Goldsworthy

Work, Great, Thought

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

Place, Leave, Longer

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
Andy Goldsworthy

Another, Between, Makes

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Andy Goldsworthy

Night, Through, After

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.
Andy Goldsworthy

Work, Rock, Trying

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

Accept, Purpose, Though

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

Fire, Working, Heat

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

Work, Around, Public

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

Small, Before, Tests

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
Andy Goldsworthy

Enjoy, Working, Quiet

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
Andy Goldsworthy

Made, Same, Place

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
Andy Goldsworthy

Life, Energy, Place

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
Andy Goldsworthy

Small, Cannot, Big

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

Fire, Become, Interested

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

Work, Snow, Between

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

Watch, Stone, Melt

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
Andy Goldsworthy

Sometimes, Able, 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

Nature, Powerful, Snow

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

Once, Possible, Original

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Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: July 26, 1956

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