Conscience Quotes by Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of…

— Barbara Hepworth

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

— Barbara Hepworth

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

— Barbara Hepworth

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

— Barbara Hepworth

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability…

— Barbara Hepworth

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from…

— Barbara Hepworth

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

— Barbara Hepworth

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

— Barbara Hepworth

“My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).”

— Barbara Hepworth

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his…

— Barbara Hepworth

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

— Barbara Hepworth

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

— Barbara Hepworth