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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.
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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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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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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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
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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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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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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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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 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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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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The important thing is somehow to begin.
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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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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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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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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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