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 GoldsworthyRead
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
Interpretation
Art can be influenced by the environment and interaction with the audience.
Andy Goldsworthy emphasizes the importance of context and interaction in art, suggesting that certain sculptures require the presence and movement of people to fully appreciate their significance. He implies that art isn't just a solitary experience but rather a dynamic interplay between the artwork and its viewers, highlighting the relationship between art, space, and engagement.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about how public art installations impact community spaces.
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.
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh β difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.
There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.
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