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Andy Goldsworthy Quotes: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
         

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.


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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.



My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.



There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.



Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.



Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.



Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.



I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.



You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.



When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.



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

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





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