Henry Moore Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.”
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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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“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.”
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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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“To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
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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.”
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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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“Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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“A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.”
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“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?”
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“I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.”
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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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“Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.”
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“Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.”
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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.”
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“I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.”
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“You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.”
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“The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.”
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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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“Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.”
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“Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.”
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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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“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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“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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