Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

You become the movie you are making.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

Making art is different for everyone.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.