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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.
Henry Moore
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Henry Moore
Age: 88 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 30
Died: 1986
Died: August 31
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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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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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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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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
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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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People think that they see, but they don't.
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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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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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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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Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.
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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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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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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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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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