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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

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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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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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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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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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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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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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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
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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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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
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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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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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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The important thing is somehow to begin.
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
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