Quote #9

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 Macritchie in Art in America (April 1995)

More from Andy Goldsworthy

  1. One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America
  2. A new kind of poetry is created when Andy Goldsworthy works with stone, wood and water - our world never looks quite the same again ~ 'Sear…
  3. 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 ofte…
  4. Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
  5. 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 betw…
  6. 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 …
  7. You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
  8. Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

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