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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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“Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.”

Trying Enough Three Four Achieve Havens Balance Stones Firing

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“Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.”

Fire Source Stones Heat

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“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.”

Want Mean Art Made Understanding Growth Cities Art Is Built Stones Appearance Deeper Woods Surface Parks Deeper Understanding

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“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

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“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.”

Trying Energy Rocks Stones Appearance Surface Ice Internals Leafs Beneath The Surface

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“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 soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.”

Bigs Happened Amount Stones Scales Heat Expensive Realised

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“I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.”

Way Two Process Growth Stones Woods Tension Farming

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“I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.”

Needs Water Wind Materials Stones Snow Ice Permanent Rising Tides Mud Clay Ice And Snow

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“When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.”

Trying Important Whole Process Behinds Objects Materials Stones Isolated Leafs

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“The early firings contained many stones.”

Artist Stones Firing

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“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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“A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.”

Memories Stones Historical Geological Time

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“There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.”

Feels Lying Nature Memories Fields Stones Beach

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“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

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“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

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

Artist Stones Tests Collecting

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“The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.”

Reason Blood Red Stones Reason Why Iron

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

About the Author

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

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