Quotes By Andy Goldsworthy

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.

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.

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

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.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

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