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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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People think that they see, but they don't.
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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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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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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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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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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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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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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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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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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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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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 have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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 observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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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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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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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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