Barbara Hepworth Short Quotes

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I rarely draw what I see—I draw what I feel in my body.

Barbara Hepworth
Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical.

Barbara Hepworth
I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara Hepworth
The strokes of the hammer on the chisel have to be in time with your heartbeat or pulse.

Barbara Hepworth
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Barbara Hepworth
The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

Barbara Hepworth
[the 1960's began] with a feeling of tremendous liberation, because I at last had space and money and time to work on a much bigger scale.

Barbara Hepworth
He [Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver] opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.

Barbara Hepworth
Light and space... are the sculptor's materials as much as wood or stone... I feel that I can relate my work more easily, in the open air, to the climate and the landscape.

Barbara Hepworth
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

Barbara Hepworth
Ascended Kynthos alone, the cave of Apollo – half-way magnificent and majestic. A pool with fine fig trees nearby full of giant (sacred?) toads – leaping and barking. Also green frogs.

Barbara Hepworth
It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

Barbara Hepworth