Making Quote by Henry Moore

“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 mass.”

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Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from…

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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

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One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

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Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio,…

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There is a right physical size for every idea.

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The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more…

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I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

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So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the…

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If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

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I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the…

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I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . .…

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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 may represent.

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