Andy Goldsworthy Stones Quotations

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

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

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

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

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

The early firings contained many stones.

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

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.