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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

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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
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Henry II Moore
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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.
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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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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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I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
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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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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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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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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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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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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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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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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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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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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 soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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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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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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