Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Andy Goldsworthy More Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy More Quotes From Andy Goldsworthy For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. Andy Goldsworthy opportunityweatherfall 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 citiesmeanart 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 artistjourneysnow I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with. Andy Goldsworthy leavingrunningwater My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit. Andy Goldsworthy decaysimpleuse I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do. Andy Goldsworthy fortunateableway People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there. Andy Goldsworthy artistpeople There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off. Andy Goldsworthy racenumbersthinking When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole. Andy Goldsworthy importantstonestrying People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement. Andy Goldsworthy pavementcitiespeople My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people. Andy Goldsworthy peopleyearsart When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another. Andy Goldsworthy landscapeicewant 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 rocksicetrying Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older. Andy Goldsworthy growsunderstandinggiving 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 artistsimpleideas 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. Andy Goldsworthy new-yorkcountrypeople I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that. Andy Goldsworthy artistmeanthinking I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that. Andy Goldsworthy foreverweatherthinking Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. Andy Goldsworthy artistwinteryears 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 differencestheatreenergy
