Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

You can put me on a plane now and I can go anywhere and just by talking having one or two conversations I can have an idea where I am in the U.S. or whatever.

I almost felt like I knew London before the first time I went there.

All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

I feel more at home in Chennai and Hyderabad than in Mumbai since I spend so much time in these two cities.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

Sometimes you can almost play the game with a blindfold on.

I don't have many hobbies or talents other than cooking, but I've always been good at figuring out a city.

As a child, I had always wanted to know what lay at the end of a corridor or behind a door in a picture, so I did a floorplan and elevations of Angelina's house and learned my way around it. The idea was that children should start to feel at home in it.

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.