Henry Moore Quotes
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Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
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The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.
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If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.
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Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
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Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.
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The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
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I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
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Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
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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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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
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Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.
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Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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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.
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One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
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Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]
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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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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
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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.
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Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
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I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
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You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.
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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 the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
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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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