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
art reality expression
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
reality expression effort
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.
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
art mystery good-work
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
children balls shapes
Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.
art order play
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.
artist trying shapes
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.