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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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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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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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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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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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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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People think that they see, but they don't.
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The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
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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 soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize 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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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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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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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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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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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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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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