Taught Value Quotes by Henry Moore

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

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

— Henry Moore

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

— Henry Moore

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

There is a right physical size for every idea.

— Henry Moore

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

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

— Henry Moore

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

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

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

— Henry Moore

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

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .…

— Henry Moore

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

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

— Henry Moore

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore