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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Nature
#Quality
#Snow
#Special
#Winter
Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Achieve
#Balance
#React
#Try
#Will
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
#Difficult
#Energy
#Explain
#Relationship
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
#Distance
#Me
#Myself
#Way
#Work
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
#Appearance
#Energy
#Rock
#Stone
#Work
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
#Difference
#Great
#Ideas
#Why
#Work
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Accept
#Project
#Purpose
#Something
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
#Audience
#Difference
#Energy
#Theatre
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
#Earth
#Energy
#Life
#Me
#World
The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Blood
#Reason
#Red
#Stone
#Why
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Back
#Childhood
#Reach
#Right
#Snow
People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Leave
#Longer
#People
#Place
#Presence
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
#Art
#City
#Growth
#Nature
#Time
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
#Late
#Nature
#Powerful
#Something
#Top
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
#Done
#Drawing
#Opening
#Spirit
#Stone
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
- Andy Goldsworthy
#Geological
#Historical
#Memories
#Stone
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