Quotes by Henry Moore

Henry Moore

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.

Pieces

Sculpture

Shapes

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it’s not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

Art

Sculpture

Shapes

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

Art

Musician

Shapes

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

Energy

Independent

Light

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

Emotional

Interpretation

Mean

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Art

Art Is

Degrees

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don’t really, you know.

Art

Moving

Thinking

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements – order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist’s personality must play their part.

Art

Order

Play

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.

Active

Art

Practice

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Art

Past

Separation

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Active

Air

Animal

Art

Art Is

Artist

Attitude

Awareness

Balance

Balls

Beautiful

Beauty

Body

Celebrate Life

Celebration

Celebration Of Life

Change

Children

Clever

Communication

Country

Creative

Creativity

Degrees

Drawing

Draws

Dream

Each Day

Educational

Effort

Emotional

Energy

Enjoyment

Enthusiasm

Expression

Eye

Force

Form

Garden

Giving

Good Work

Grateful

Gratitude

Greater

Greatness

Hands

Helping Others

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Quotes by Henry Moore

Henry Moore

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.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it’s not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

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

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

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements – order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist’s personality must play their part.

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.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

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