Andy Goldsworthy Quotes About Appearance

Quotes about: Appearance

• 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

• My 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 Goldsworthy

  Art, Mean, Cities

• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Trying

• I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Always Trying, Appearance

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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