Henry Moore Short Quotes

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What is a cave? A cave is a shape. It's not the lump of mountain over it.

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

Henry Moore
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

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.

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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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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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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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Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me its best setting and complement is nature.

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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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Sculpture in stone should look honestly like stone…to make it look like flesh and blood, hair and dimples is coming down to the level of the stage conjuror.

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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

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To be obsessed with some vision and to have the continuous opportunity of working to realize that vision could be looked upon as God's greatest gift to anyone.

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In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

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The Negroes.... their unique claim for admiration is their power to produce form completely in the round... Negro sculpture is completely in the round, fully-conceived air-surrounded form.

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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.

Henry Moore