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“I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.”
-- Henry Moore

#Inspirational #New Year #Educational
“To be an artist is to believe in life.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Believe #Artist
“One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.”
-- Henry Moore

#Important #Each Day #Ready
“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.”
-- Henry Moore

#Change #Creativity #Creative
“If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Lying #Men
“To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Opposites
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Musician #Sound
“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.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Moving #Thinking
“There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.”
-- Henry Moore

#Enthusiasm
“Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Struggle #Drawing
“The important thing is somehow to begin.”
-- Henry Moore

#Important
“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
“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.”
-- Henry Moore

#Motivational #Secret #Important
“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
“A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.”
-- Henry Moore

#Sculpture #Shapes #Obsessed
“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?”
-- Henry Moore

#Positive #Thinking #Given
“I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.”
-- Henry Moore

#Drawing #Draws
“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
“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
“Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Past #Separation
“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

#Art #Grateful #School
“I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.”
-- Henry Moore

#Drawing #Sometimes #Enjoyment
“You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.”
-- Henry Moore

#Space #Body
“The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.”
-- Henry Moore

#Art #Pieces #Stones
“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

#Artist #Trying #Shapes
“Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.”
-- Henry Moore

#Helping Others #People #Sculpture
“Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.”
-- Henry Moore

#Clever #Artist #People
“One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.”
-- Henry Moore

#Important #Technique #Should
“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

#Art #Practice #Active
“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

#Animal #People #Sculpture

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