Henry Moore
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Art
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Art
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.Collection: Independent
You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Drawing
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?Collection: Positive
I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.Collection: Ideas
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.Collection: Reality
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.]Collection: Wise
Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.Collection: Thinking
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.Collection: Art
I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.Collection: Dream
All art is an abstraction to some degree.Collection: Art
There is a right physical size for every idea.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Sculpture
People think that they see, but they don't.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Eye
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.Collection: Clever
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Memories
I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.Collection: Drawing
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.Collection: Talking