Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. July 1956
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Famous Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

“You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.”

"Searching for the window into nature's soul" http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues97/feb97/golds.html Smithsonian magazine (February 1997)

“My work comes first, reasons for it follow.”

"Residency on Earth" in Art in America (April, 1995)

Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

“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.”

Interview with Conrad Bodman, curator at the Barbican Arts Centre (2001)
Context: 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. Sometimes it's difficult to say if something has worked or not. 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.

“Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.”

Stone River Enters Stanford University's Outdoor Art Collection http://ccva.stanford.edu/Goldsworthy.html (4 September 2001)

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