Barbara Hepworth Quotes
- I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
- Body experience... is the centre of creation.
- My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
- At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's…
- Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again…
- I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that…
- I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
- One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution,…
- I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
- I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour
- The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the…