Art Quote by Henry Moore Download Open image “If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.” — Henry Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Greatness Ifs Knows Lying Lying Woman Making Art Men Standing Women lie
I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people. — Kathleen Quinlan Copy Share Image
You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral.… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not. — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art. — Ken Jeong Copy Share Image
In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image