A new kind of poetry is created when Andy Goldsworthy works with stone, wood and water - our world never looks quite the same again ~ 'Searching for the window into nature's soul', Smithsonian magazine (February 1997)

The skepticism of the art establishment seems to be based on, as much as anything, a kind of big-city prejudice against work so free from urban angst. ~ Lynn M…

One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America

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…

Why do you paint? For exactly the same reason I breathe. That's not an answer. There isn't any answer. How long hasn't there been any answer? As long as I can …

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it ha…

Wordsworth went to the lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.