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.
Complete control can be the death of a work. - Andy Goldsworthy
Complete control can be the death of a work.
- Andy Goldsworthy
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving. - Andy Goldsworthy
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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
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…
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
When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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
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…
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
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time. - Andy Goldsworthy
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear. - Andy Goldsworthy
Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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
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…
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