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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.
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
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Henry II Moore
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Henry Moore II
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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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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
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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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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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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 creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore
The important thing is somehow to begin.
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Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
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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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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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