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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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