For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.
Andy GoldsworthyI am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
Andy GoldsworthyIf you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
Andy GoldsworthyWhen I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
Andy GoldsworthyThere are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
Andy GoldsworthyWhen it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.
Andy Goldsworthy