Andy Goldsworthy Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• 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.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rocks, Ice, Trying

• 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.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Differences, Theatre, Energy

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Weather, Keys

• The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Energy, Lines

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

• Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Energy

  "Natural talent" By Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2007.

• Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Blood, Light, Growth

  "Philosophy and the Arts: Collected Essays". Book by Bert Olivier, 2009.

• 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.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Animal, Energy, Way

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

• 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.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Running, Artist, Japan

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

• Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Independent, Rocks

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