“My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to...” — Andy Goldsworthy Quote

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.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.