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Henry Moore Inspirational Quotes (43)

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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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People think that they see, but they don't.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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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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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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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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