Quotes from Andy Goldsworthy

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.