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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.
Henry Moore
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Henry Moore
Age: 88 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 30
Died: 1986
Died: August 31
Graphic Artist
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Henry Spencer Moore
Henari Mure
Henri Mur
Henri Mor
Henry II Moore
Heng-li Mo-erh
Henry Moore II
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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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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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There is a right physical size for every idea.
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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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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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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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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 think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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People think that they see, but they don't.
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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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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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The important thing is somehow to begin.
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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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