There’s a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it’s driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it’s a tension that I think I feed off.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

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

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

— Andy Goldsworthy

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

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

We leave our presence in the pavement. We’re walking over it, sitting on steps.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother’s deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

— Andy Goldsworthy

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

— Andy Goldsworthy

It’s frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

— Andy Goldsworthy

It’s art that’s taught me to think and to write.

— Andy Goldsworthy

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

— Andy Goldsworthy

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

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

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I’m experiencing it when I’m there working on it. I’m there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

— Andy Goldsworthy

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

— Andy Goldsworthy
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