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Henry Moore - From the Abstraction category:
All art is an abstraction to some degree. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Activity category:
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Art category:
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Artists category:
To be an artist is to believe in life. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Beginning category:
The important thing is somehow to begin. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Communication category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Communication category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Concentration category:
The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Creativity category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Discipline category:
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Drawing category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Education category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Energy category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Energy category:
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Enthusiasm category:
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Exhibitions category:
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. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Expression category:
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. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Form category:
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. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Greatness category:
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Humanity category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Ideas category:
I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Ideas category:
There is a right physical size for every idea. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Importance category:
What's important is finding out what works for you. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Interest category:
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Interest category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Modernism category:
Because a work does not aim at reproducing the natural appearance it is not... an escape from life... it may be a penetrating into reality... a stimulation to greater effort in living. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Mysteries category:
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Nature category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Observation category:
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. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Obsession category:
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Opposites category:
To know one thing, you must know the opposite. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Perfection category:
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. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Plagiarism category:
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist – it's like forging a person's signature. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Preparation category:
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Questions category:
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Revelation category:
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Sculpture category:
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Sculpture category:
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Sculpture category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Senses category:
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)
Henry Moore - From the Space category:
You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Technique category:
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Time category:
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Unknowns category:
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Wonder category:
Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. (Henry Moore)
Henry Moore - From the Wonder category:
-on a visit in student days to see Cezanne's Large Bathers...
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. (Henry Moore)
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