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
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
Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old… — 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
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
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
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery. — 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, but the… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
