At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
Andy GoldsworthyThe photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
Andy GoldsworthyWe often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, weโve lost our connection to ourselves.
Andy GoldsworthyTime confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.
Andy GoldsworthyIf you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
Andy Goldsworthy