It's not about art. It's just about life and the need to
understand that a lot of things in life do not last.
Failure is really, really important, but failures have to
hurt ... And if I start making this work with the intention of it collapsing,
then I've lost that intensity of the will for it to succeed, which makes the
failure that much more poignant and significant. So there's a really odd sort
of state of mind that I guess I get into when I'm making these works, that is
necessary for me to extract the finished piece [and] extract the right kind of
feeling for the work as I'm making it.
To achieve what I want, to achieve the works that I make, I
have to be fully committed to them succeeding. I couldn't make them otherwise.
And you cannot feel that commitment without feeling or having a deep sense of
loss when they do collapse or fail, and that's inevitable.
Andy Goldsworthy
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