A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

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.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

The early firings contained many stones.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

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.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
- Andy Goldsworthy Quote