Henry Moore - Life Quotes

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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 your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do!

Henry Moore
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

Henry Moore
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form-knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration

Henry Moore
I find myself lined up with the surrealists because Surrealism means freedom for the creative side of man, for surprise & discovery & life, for an opening out & widening of mans consciousness, for changing life & against conserving worn out traditions, for variety not a uniformity, for opening not closing.

Henry Moore
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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The disturbing quality of life goes hand in hand with the disturbing quality of our time. The temporal emphasizes the perpetual...

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One knows that later Giacometti broke this domination the surrealist influence of Breton, and he became completely interested again in the figure, he became figurative – he did nothing in the end but portraits of his brother and so on, and all very... not realistic, but interested in life, in nature, and not so much in the dream or in the fantasy.

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Yet actual physical size has an emotional meaning. We relate everything to our own size, and our emotional response to size is controlled by the fact that men on the average are between five and six feet high... If practical considerations allowed me, cost of material, of transport, etc., I should like to work on large carvings more often than I do. The average in-between size does not disconnect an idea enough from prosaic everyday life. The very small or the very big [sculpture] takes on an added size emotion.

Henry Moore
I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature..

Henry Moore