Richard Long

"I like the fact that every stone is different, one from another, in the same way all fingerprints, or snowflakes are unique, so no two circles can be alike. In the landscape works, the stones are of t…"

"I am an artist who makes walks. A walk defines the form of the land in space and time beyond the scale of sculpture or the fixed image. Some of my walks are formal almost ritualised. I have climbed ar…"

"My art is the essence of my experience, not a representation of it."

"Nature has always been recorded by artists, from prehistoric cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work, but in new ways. I started w…"

"I like to see art as being a return to the 'senses'."

"My work has become a simple metaphor of life. A figure walking down his road, making his mark. It is an affirmation of my human scale and senses: how far I walk, what stones I pick up, my particular e…"

"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 scu…"

"The outdoor and indoor works are complementary, although I would have to say that nature, the landscape, the walking, is at the heart of my work and informs the indoor works. But the art world is usua…"