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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Geological Historical Ingrained Memories Stone

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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

Topics: Appearance Art Attempt Beyond Built City Deeper Ground Growth Made Mean Nature Parks Reach See Stone Surface Time Understanding Want Which Wood

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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Even Isolated Patch Quality Snow Special Winter

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Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Am Fire Heat Origin Returning Source Stone Working I Am

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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: About Another Australia Britain California Connects Earth Energy Flow France Japan Life Me Over Place Red Round Running Taught Vein Worked World

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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

Topics: Container Direct Familiar Feelings Function Ideas Levels Many Many Levels Most Simple Simplicity Snowball Us Use

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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Back Childhood Reach Responses Right Right Back Snow

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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Abandoning After Building Came Collecting Day Day And Night Experiencing Failures Gone Having Incredibly Night Process Project Room Sitting Stones Stressful Temperature Through

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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: About Across Come Finding June Last Late May Mountain Occasionally Patch Powerful Snow Something Summer Top Very

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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

Topics: All My Work Appearance Attempt Beneath Energy Get Ice Internal Leaf Rock Stone Surface Things Trying Understand Whether Work Working

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: July 26th, 1956

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