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Andy Goldsworthy

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 work
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 time
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
— Andy Goldsworthy childhood
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
— Andy Goldsworthy memories
People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
— Andy Goldsworthy people
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
— Andy Goldsworthy winter
Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
— Andy Goldsworthy time
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 time
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 work
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
— Andy Goldsworthy right
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
— Andy Goldsworthy energy
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 power
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 man
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
— Andy Goldsworthy sin
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
— Andy Goldsworthy winter
The early firings contained many stones.
— Andy Goldsworthy man
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
— Andy Goldsworthy art
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 failure
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.
— Andy Goldsworthy people
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
— Andy Goldsworthy real
I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.
— Andy Goldsworthy time
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 art
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 life
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
— Andy Goldsworthy men
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
— Andy Goldsworthy work
As with all my work, whether its a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, Im 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 work
At its most successful, my touch looks into the heart of nature; most days I dont even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
— Andy Goldsworthy success

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