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 to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life. — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure. — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
“My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).” — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
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