Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical about it. I don't ever deal with the subtext because I just know it's there so I don't have to deal with it. I just keep it about the scenario. I keep it on the surface, on my concerns. And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.