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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

Henry Moore

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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
Art
Make
Fuller
Richer
Lives

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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
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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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To be an artist is to believe in life.
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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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.
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Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
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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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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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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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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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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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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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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 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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