Barbara Hepworth Quote

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the forms. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of foulnesses and concavities, through hollows and over peaks – feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour.


p. 280 - "Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial autobiography", New York, Praeger Publishers, 1970


All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills...

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills...

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills...

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills...