Henry Moore Quotes - Page 2

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• The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

  Henry Moore

  Artist, Observation

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

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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

  Communication, Eye, Artist

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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

  Art, Views, Hands

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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

  Art, Order, Play

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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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

  Art, Sides, Human Life

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• Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Past, Separation

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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

  Henry Moore

  Art, Pieces, Stones

  Henry Moore, David Mitchinson, Julian Andrews, Henry Moore Foundation (1998). “Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

  Henry Moore

  Positive, Attitude, Positivity

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

  Henry Moore

  Luck, Force

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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

  Art, Shapes, Musician

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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

  Country, Garden, Air

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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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

  Space, Air, Tree

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• There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

  Henry Moore

  Enthusiasm, Greater

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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.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Sculpture, Shapes

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

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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

  Reality, Expression, Effort

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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

  Independent, Light, Energy

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Alan Bowness (1957). “Henry Moore: 1921-1948”

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• Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Art Is, Our Lives

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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

  Art, Jobs, Mistake

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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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

  Ideas, Drawing, Sculpture

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

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• You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.

  Henry Moore

  Space, Body

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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

  Drawing, Humanity, Balance

  Andrew Causey, Henry Moore (2010). “The Drawings of Henry Moore”, Lund Humphries Pub Limited

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

  Henry Moore

  Wise, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

  Henry Moore

  Thinking, Volume, Surface

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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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.

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  Dream, Thinking, Twelve

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• One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

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  Important, Technique, Form

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