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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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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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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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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There is a right physical size for every idea.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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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.
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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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Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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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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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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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 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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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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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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