A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. … - Andy Goldsworthy

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

Andy Goldsworthy

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

Art, Cities, City, Mean, Understanding

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

Experiencing, Finals, Knows, Objects, Worked, Working

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

Different, Rain, Storm

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

Big, Bigs, Heat, Realised, Scale, Stones

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

Blown, Day, One Day, Tree, Years