Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

Shovel Ready

You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.

I treat my projects as art.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

It feels amazing to be back on set. It feels like home, even though the territory is a little bit unfamiliar because it's a new show, it's a new character, but once you get in the groove and you start to settle in and trust the moment, you start to really feel at home.