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Richard Long - 1945
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| Sahara Circle , 1988 |
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| Sahara Line , 1988 |
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My art is about working in the wide
world, wherever, on the surface of the earth.
My art has the themes of materials, ideas,
movement, time. The beauty of objects, thoughts, places and actions.
My work is about my senses, my instinct, my own scale
and my own physical commitment.
My work is real, not illusory or conceptual.
It is about real stones, real time, real actions.
My work is not urban, nor is it romantic.
It is the laying down of modern ideas in
the only practical places to take them.
The natural world sustains the industrial world.
I use the world as I find it.
My art can be remote or very public,
all the work and all the places being equal.
My work is visible or invisible. It can be an
object (to possess) or an idea carried out and equally shared by anyone who knows about it.
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| Mud Hand Circles, 1989 |
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| White Water Circle 1994. |
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My photographs are facts which bring the
right accessibility to remote, lonely
or otherwise unrecognizable works. Some sculptures
are seen by few people, but can be known about by many.
My outdoor sculptures and walking locations
are not subject to possession and ownership. I like the fact that roads and mountains are common, public land.
My outdoor sculptures are places.
The material and the idea are of the place;
sculpture and place are one and the same.
The place is as far as the eye can see from the
sculpture. The place for a sculpture is found
by walking. Some works are a succession
of particular places along a walk, e.g.,
Milestones. In this work the walking,
the places, and the stones all have equal importance.
My talent as an artist is to walk across
a moor, or place a stone on the ground.
My stones are like grains of sand in
the space of the landscape.
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