5 Andy Goldsworthy Quotes on Nature

Andy Goldsworthy quotes on nature

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

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

4. 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. 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. It's as if the whole of winter has drained through that white hole - a concentration of winter.

6. Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

10. 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)