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To be an artist is to believe in life.

Henry Moore

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Henry Moore
Age: 88 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 30
Died: 1986
Died: August 31
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Watercolorist
Henry Spencer Moore
Henari Mure
Henri Mur
Henri Mor
Henry II Moore
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Henry Moore II
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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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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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People think that they see, but they don't.
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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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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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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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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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The important thing is somehow to begin.
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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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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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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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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
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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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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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