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The important thing is somehow to begin.

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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
Somehow
Begin
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Important
Thing

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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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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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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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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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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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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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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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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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There is a right physical size for every idea.
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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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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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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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