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Andy Goldsworthy Quotes: I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
         

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.


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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.



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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.



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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.





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