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
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
I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would… — 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
