Quotes By Andy Goldsworthy

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

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

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

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

The early firings contained many stones.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

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