Complete control can be the death of a work.

- Andy Goldsworthy

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

- Andy Goldsworthy

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

- Andy Goldsworthy

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to b…

- Andy Goldsworthy

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

- Andy Goldsworthy

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. T…

- Andy Goldsworthy

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

- Andy Goldsworthy

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

- Andy Goldsworthy

In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both a…

- Andy Goldsworthy