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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The important thing is somehow to begin.

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  Important, Action, Important Things

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

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  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• Being an artist is celebrating life.

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  Passion, Artist, Celebrate Life

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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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• 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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• You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

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  Luck, Force

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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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• A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

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  Art, Sculpture, Shapes

  "Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation".

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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.

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  Communication, Eye, Artist

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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.

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  Space, Air, Tree

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