Top 100 Goldsworthy Quotes

#1. I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#2. There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #55301
#3. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #59965
#4. The incarnation (becoming flesh) of God is at the very center of the gospel event by which God restores the true relationship between himself and the human race.

Graeme Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #67414
#5. The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #89352
#6. Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #105420
#7. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #114315
#8. In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #118854
#9. Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #134563
#10. When I'm working with materials it's not just the leaf or the stone, it's the processes that are behind them that are important. That's what I'm trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #155627
#11. 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.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #157166
#12. I take the opportunity each day offers.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #182861
#13. You'll be there for her through this aftermath. Then you move on and let her finish her life.

Sandy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #193195
#14. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #195646
#15. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #217722
#16. (Sulla gave the slave his freedom and then had the man thrown to his death

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #232118
#17. Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #237144
#18. The early firings contained many stones.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #238376
#19. Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#20. I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #259558
#21. I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #281372
#22. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #297058
#23. The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

Graeme Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #318145
#24. It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #326315
#25. It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#26. Quite openly, voters selected on the basis of perceived character and past behaviour rather than the views a candidate expressed. Where an individual's nature was not obvious, the Roman people tended to be drawn to a famous name, for there was a sense that virtue and ability were inherited.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #339757
#27. My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #351603
#28. Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #352898
#29. The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #353518
#30. If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #369799
#31. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#32. 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

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#34. I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #395317
#35. I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets." - piano teacher Eleanora Sivan.

Anna Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #399045
#36. Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #401321
#37. At home, my mother dabbed at her brow with a wet flannel she kept in the fridge for that purpose.

Peter Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #402692
#38. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #412858
#39. The tribune was betrayed by one of his own slaves and killed.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #423990
#40. A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#41. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #472521
#42. One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#43. As Cicero would later declare, 'For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?"3

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #515248
#44. I smiled, but internally, unseen, using no visible facial muscles.

Peter Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #527402
#45. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #584597
#46. We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Peter Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #608497
#47. My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#48. I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#49. It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#51. Roman women kept their name throughout their lives, and did not change it on marriage.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #672704
#52. Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Adrian Goldsworthy

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#53. 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

Goldsworthy Quotes #737851
#54. Sovereignty means exercising kingly power. We use the word in relation to God meaning that there is absolutely nothing that he does not control.

Graeme Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #753047
#55. 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

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#56. A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#57. Even the stars we see
are only a kind of memory,
already dead for years.

Peter Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #795103
#58. Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#59. 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

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#60. Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#63. If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#64. I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#66. 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

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#67. The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#68. 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

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#69. Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #930015
#70. Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #951404
#71. My affection for you does not depend on those small things.'
Affection? To hear him admit it, to actually utter words of love, however understated, astonished me.

Peter Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #959203
#72. By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #960006
#73. The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.

Graeme Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #965622
#74. At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't 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

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#75. Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#76. 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.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#78. 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

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#79. Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#80. Art is not a career - it's a life.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#81. Julia. At the most basic level a Roman husband had only to utter the phrase 'take your things for yourself' (tuas res tibi habeto) to separate from his wife.

Adrian Goldsworthy

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#82. We often forget that we are nature ...

Andy Goldsworthy

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#83. The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#84. Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Adrian Goldsworthy

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#85. I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#86. To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.

Graeme Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #1179254
#87. Only the second-rate never make mistakes

Peter Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #1184384
#88. Complete control can be the death of a work.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #1186712
#89. A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.

Peter Goldsworthy

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#90. People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#91. I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#92. 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

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#93. I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#94. As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

Andy Goldsworthy

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#96. 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

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

Andy Goldsworthy

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#98. It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#99. The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy Quotes #1343654
#100. 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

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