Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a… — 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
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
