Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny…

— 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…

— Barbara Hepworth

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different…

— 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…

— 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

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in…

— Barbara Hepworth

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its…

— Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of…

— Barbara Hepworth

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art…

— Barbara Hepworth

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to…

— Barbara Hepworth

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But…

— Barbara Hepworth

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

— Barbara Hepworth

I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of…

— Barbara Hepworth

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the…

— Barbara Hepworth

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted…

— Barbara Hepworth

Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new…

— Barbara Hepworth