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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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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More quotes by Henry Moore
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.
Henry Moore
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
Henry Moore
The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
There is a right physical size for every idea.
Henry Moore
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
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
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
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
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
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
Henry Moore
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
Henry Moore
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
Henry Moore
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
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.
Henry Moore
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
Henry Moore
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
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
Henry Moore
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
Henry Moore
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Henry Moore
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
