Andy Goldsworthy Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.”

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