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Andy Goldsworthy, born on July 26, 1956, is a renowned British photographer. His works are inspired by nature and capture the beauty of landscapes through unique perspectives and techniques, earning him the title of 'earth artist'. Goldsworthy's art often involves creating outdoors, using natural materials to produce works that have a strong visual impact and artistic appeal.

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“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.”

Artist Three Hours Quality Journey Cold Six Stores Snow Wet Tense Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“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.”

Ideas Use Feelings Artist Simple Levels Direct Function Simplicity Familiar Containers Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

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

Years Artist Next Cases Century Winter Bridges

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.”

Artist Night Process Rooms Gone Building Projects Sitting Stones Temperature Collecting Day And Night Stressful

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“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.”

World Running Earth Artist Energy Taught Red Flow Rounds France California Britain Japan Australia Veins Energy And Life

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“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.”

Ifs Artist Worst Elements Stones Abandoned Splits Explosions Firing Debris

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“I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.”

Thinking Knows Mean Artist Interest Land Connections Tolerance Enormous Treated Weather Dependent Village Do You Know Farmers Caution Scottish Hey You

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“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.”

Years Art Past Artist Dies Process Art Is I've Learned Over The Past

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

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

Sometimes Able Artist Interesting

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.”

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“The early firings contained many stones.”

Artist Stones Firing

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.”

Artist Quality Mass Stones Skins Stronger Torn Liquid Hardened

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“It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.”

Artist Watches Stones Scary Frightening

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“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.”

Artist Energy Difficult Lines Fine Complexes Critical Fine Lines

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“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.”

Happens Artist Break Violence Tears Promise Stones Flesh Violent Breaking Promises

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.”

Way Artist Enjoy Quiet Introvert Subversive

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.”

Stills Form Artist Stones Originals Reconstruction Downsizing

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.”

Artist Fire Flames Heat Cautious Theatrical

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“Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.”

Purpose Artist Accepting Projects Confrontation

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.”

Artist Stones Tests Collecting

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

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

Firsts Mother Artist Freeze Early 20s Snowball

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

About the Author

Born: July 26, 1956
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 111

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