Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms,… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size,… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from… — Henry Moore Copy Share
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. — Henry Moore Copy Share
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio,… — Henry Moore Copy Share
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more… — Henry Moore Copy Share
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery. — Henry Moore Copy Share
So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the… — Henry Moore Copy Share
The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid… — Henry Moore Copy Share
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. — Henry Moore Copy Share
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the… — Henry Moore Copy Share
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent. — Henry Moore Copy Share
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore Copy Share
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