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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.
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
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Henry Moore II
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
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In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.
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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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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.
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There is a right physical size for every idea.
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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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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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