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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Brought City Done Edge Fields Five Leeds Many Miles Other People Places Realise Side Up Urban Were Works

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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Had Hardened Liquid Mass Much Part Qualities Remained Simply Skin Stone Stones Stronger Than Those Torn Which

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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Also Even Leave Longer People Place Presence

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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Animal Appear Because Caged Captured Energy Inside Just Just Because Kind Materials Some Them Way

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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.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Artist Between Complex Creatively Critical Difficult Energy Explain Fine Fine Line Line Public Relationship Using

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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

Topics: Between Difference Great Great Ideas Had Huge Huge Difference Idea Ideas Just Make More Must Often Otherwise Put Realisation Test Than Things Thought Were Why Work Would

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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Between Clearly Distance Helps Made Me More Myself Photography Putting See Sometimes Way Which Work

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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Able Being Interesting Sometimes Touch

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The early firings contained many stones.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Contained Early Many Stones

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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Although Break Breaking Flesh Happens Like More Rather Stone Stones Tear Than Violence Violent

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: July 26th, 1956

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