"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to……" — Henry Moore
"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
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55 Quotes by Henry Moore
Henry Moore has 55 quotes on this site.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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Being an artist is celebrating life.
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a…
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A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.
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A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it…
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Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it,…
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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The creative habit is like a drug.
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but…
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Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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