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A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. -- Henry Moore
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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. -- Henry Moore
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I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.. -- Henry Moore
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I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect. -- Henry Moore
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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. -- Henry Moore
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely. -- Henry Moore
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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, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. -- Henry Moore
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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 in, or on, the most beautiful building I know. -- Henry Moore
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. -- Henry Moore
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Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. -- Henry Moore
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There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. -- Henry Moore
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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years -- Henry Moore
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Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences ... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it. -- Henry Moore
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All art is an abstraction to some degree. -- Henry Moore
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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 growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space. -- Henry Moore
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Being an artist is celebrating life. -- Henry Moore
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I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21 ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it. -- Henry Moore
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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. -- Henry Moore
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The important thing is somehow to begin. -- Henry Moore
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I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly. -- Henry Moore
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People think that they see, but they don't. -- Henry Moore
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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. -- Henry Moore
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Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life
but may be a penetration into reality ... as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living. -- Henry Moore
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The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time. -- Henry Moore
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If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first. -- Henry Moore
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery. -- Henry Moore
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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 underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something. -- Henry Moore
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. -- Henry Moore
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The creative habit is like a drug. -- Henry Moore
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Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. -- Henry Moore
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm. -- Henry Moore
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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 make that particular sense more active and more acute. -- Henry Moore
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I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture ... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. -- Henry Moore
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Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. -- Henry Moore
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The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this. -- Henry Moore
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A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things. -- Henry Moore
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To be an artist is to believe in life. -- Henry Moore
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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller. -- Henry Moore
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. -- Henry Moore
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. -- Henry Moore
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Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. -- Henry Moore
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There is a right physical size for every idea. -- Henry Moore
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I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper ... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place. -- Henry Moore
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You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there. -- Henry Moore
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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. -- Henry Moore
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All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part. -- Henry Moore
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite. -- Henry Moore
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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 work. -- Henry Moore
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In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture. -- Henry Moore
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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality. -- Henry Moore
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Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses. -- Henry Moore
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. -- Henry Moore
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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form. -- Henry Moore
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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. -- Henry Moore
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I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? -- Henry Moore
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. -- Henry Moore
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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 difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else. -- Henry Moore
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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. -- Henry Moore