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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
Heng-li Mo-erh
Henry Moore II
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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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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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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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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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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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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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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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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.
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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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