Past and present 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