Andy Goldsworthy Quotes and Sayings

“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

#Connections #Forget #Lost

“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

#Time #Giving #Growth

“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Winter #Snow #Childhood

“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

#Rocks #Ice #Trying

“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.”
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Winter #Snow #Special

“Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.”
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Interesting #Able #Sometimes

“The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.”
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Art #Essence #Drawing

“The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.”
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Differences #Theatre #Energy

“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

#Art #Mean #Cities