Andy Goldsworthy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy
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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.”
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“A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Breaking stone with a hammer is a familiar and acceptable way of working the material, but is in fact a more violent response than firing.”
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“Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.”
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“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.”
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“Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.”
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“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.”
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“I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.”
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