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Art Quotes by Henry Moore
- The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
- To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
- Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
- All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes…
- All art is an abstraction to some degree.
- I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In…
- Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
- I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I…
- Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
- Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
- Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than…
- If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
- I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
- The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
- All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is…
- A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
- It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his…
- To be an artist is to believe in life.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov