156 Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

Art is not a career - it's a life.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

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.

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

The early firings contained many stones.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.