Henry Moore Quotes - Page 3

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• All art is an abstraction to some degree.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Degrees, Art Is

  Henry Moore (2013). “On Being a Sculptor”, p.20, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• There is a right physical size for every idea.

  Henry Moore

  Ideas, Size

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Sculpture, Pieces, Shapes

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• People think that they see, but they don't.

  Henry Moore

  Thinking, People

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• I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

  Henry Moore

  Eye, Ideas, Drawing

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• Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

  Henry Moore

  Clever, Artist, People

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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.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Grateful, School

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• Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Struggle, Drawing

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• The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.

  Henry Moore

  Memories, Artist, Two

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• I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

  Henry Moore

  Drawing, Sometimes, Enjoyment

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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• Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

  Henry Moore

  Talking, Energy, Release

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