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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
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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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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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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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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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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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
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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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There is a right physical size for every idea.
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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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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People think that they see, but they don't.
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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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Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.
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The important thing is somehow to begin.
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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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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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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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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