All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part. — 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 this. — 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
