Quotes By Andy Goldsworthy

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.

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.

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

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.

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.