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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.
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
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's 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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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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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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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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
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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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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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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
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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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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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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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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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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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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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