Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

My process of working is that I don't create a picture, I find it.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.