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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
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Henry Moore
Age: 88 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 30
Died: 1986
Died: August 31
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Henry Spencer Moore
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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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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 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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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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The important thing is somehow to begin.
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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.
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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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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.
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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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.
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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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There is a right physical size for every idea.
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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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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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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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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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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.
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