Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

Time moves on for everyone.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

Time did not compose her.

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.