Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Andy GoldsworthyIf you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
Andy GoldsworthyMy 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.
Andy GoldsworthyPeople do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
Andy Goldsworthy