Henry Moore
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBAwas an Anglo-Irish sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth30 July 1898
communication eye artist
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.
drawing humanity balance
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.
important important-things
The important thing is somehow to begin.
art grateful school
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.
independent light may
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
art jobs mistake
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.
sculpture shapes obsessed
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.
art musician sound
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
life inspiration artist
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.
art struggle giving
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
air space tree
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.
art opposites one-thing
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
artist observation
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
helping-others people sculpture
Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.