Henry Moore Quotes
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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.
— Henry Moore
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
— Henry Moore
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
— Henry Moore
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
— Henry Moore
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
— Henry Moore
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
— Henry Moore
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
— 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
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
— Henry Moore
The important thing is somehow to begin.
— Henry Moore
People think that they see, but they don't.
— Henry Moore
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
— Henry Moore
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
— Henry Moore
To be an artist is to believe in life.
— Henry Moore
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
— Henry Moore
Being an artist is celebrating life.
— Henry Moore
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
— Henry Moore
There is a right physical size for every idea.
— 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.
— Henry Moore
The creative habit is like a drug.
— 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 soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
— Henry Moore
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
— Henry Moore
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
— Henry Moore
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
— Henry Moore