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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
Graphic Artist
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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 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
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
Henry Moore
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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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
Henry Moore
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.
Henry Moore
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
Henry Moore
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.
Henry Moore
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 art is an abstraction to some degree.
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
Henry Moore
There is a right physical size for every idea.
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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
Henry Moore
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
Henry Moore
To be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore
People think that they see, but they don't.
Henry Moore
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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