Henry Moore Quotes

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• Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

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  Art, Reality, Expression

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• To be an artist is to believe in life.

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  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Henry Moore, David Mitchinson (1981). “Henry Moore sculpture”, Not Avail

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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.

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  Animal, People, Sculpture

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.198, Univ of California Press

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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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  Motivational, Secret, Important

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• Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

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  Mean, Emotional, Interpretation

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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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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  Art, Lying, Greatness

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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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  Important, Each Day, Awareness

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• I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

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  Celebration, Celebration Of Life

  Henry Moore, John Hedgecoe, Suzanne Webber (1986). “Henry Moore”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

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  Art, Soul, Spirit

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• 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 away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.

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  Art, Moving, Thinking

  "The Moore legacy" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2008.

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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.

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  Artist, Trying, Shapes

  Henry Moore (1968). “Henry Spencer Moore”

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• The important thing is somehow to begin.

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  Important, Action, Important Things

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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.

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  Spiritual, Moving, Expression

  Henry Moore (1986). “Henry Moore”, Hodder & Stoughton

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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.

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  Art, Struggle, Giving

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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

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  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

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  Change, Creativity, Creative

  "Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions". Book by Eric Maisel, ‎Ann Maisel, p. 95, 2010.

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• Being an artist is celebrating life.

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  Passion, Artist, Celebrate Life

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• I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

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  Drawing, Draws

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• Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

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  Helping Others, People, Sculpture

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• To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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  Art, Opposites, Knows

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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.

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  Beautiful, Art, Air

  Henry Moore, David Sylvester, Alan Bowness (1986). “Henry Moore: Sculpture 1949-54”, Lund Humphries Publishers

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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.

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  Life, Nature, Inspiration

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read (1944). “Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings”

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• I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

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  Art, Mystery, Good Work

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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.

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  Art, Practice, Active

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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.

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  Children, Balls, Shapes

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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