Andy Goldsworthy: Making

Andy Goldsworthy is British sculptor and photographer. Explore interesting quotes on making.

Andy Goldsworthy: 24 quotes8 likes

“My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.”

Andy Goldsworthy

"Stone River Enters Stanford University's Outdoor Art Collection" (4 September 2001)

“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

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.

“One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”

Andy Goldsworthy

He's got the whole world in his hands, The Telegraph (24 March 2007)

“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

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