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 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.
dream thinking sculpture
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.
creative drug lasts
The creative habit is like a drug.
eye ideas drawing
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.
spiritual moving expression
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.
wise gratitude grateful
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.]
talking energy release
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
luck force
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
clever artist people
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
art pieces stones
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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.
important technique should
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
art practice active
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.
passion artist celebrate-life
Being an artist is celebrating life.