We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves. Andy Goldsworthy More Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy More Quotes From Andy Goldsworthy Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it. Andy Goldsworthy land art needs I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these. Andy Goldsworthy ice-and-snow wind water The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects. Andy Goldsworthy sculpture income projects We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps. Andy Goldsworthy pavement sitting steps The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters. Andy Goldsworthy british climate winter I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land. Andy Goldsworthy discipline land people I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two. Andy Goldsworthy growth stones two 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 thought great work ideas 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 better place think me 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 stone opening drawing done
