The 61+ Henry Moore Quotes

Talking About One's Work Releases The Energy And Tension To Do And Make.

I Sometimes Draw Just For Its Own Enjoyment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Discipline In Art Is A Fundamental Struggle To Understand Oneself, As Much As To Understand What One Is Drawing.

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.

Art Is A Continuous Activity With No Separation Between Past And Present.

One Mustn't Let Technique Be The Consciously Important Thing. It Should Be At The Service Of Expressing The Form.

People Think That They See, But They Don't.

Art Is To Make Our Lives Richer And Fuller.