Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

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

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.