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Andy Goldsworthy

"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."

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"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."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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"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."
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"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."
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"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
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