Barbara Hepworth Professions : Artist Born : January 10, 1903 Died : May 20, 1975 Browse All Authors Top 23 quotes by Barbara Hepworth I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. Barbara Hepworth draws body art I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour Barbara Hepworth thrust hollow form I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city. Barbara Hepworth inspiration country moving My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone. Barbara Hepworth stones hands thinking It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole. Barbara Hepworth sculpture body people All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour. Barbara Hepworth memories father art Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands. Barbara Hepworth intuition integrity ideas At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution. Barbara Hepworth wish men art The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life. Barbara Hepworth community artist thinking [My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . . Barbara Hepworth emotional creative past I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. Barbara Hepworth midnight found One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. Barbara Hepworth tiny yield details My works are an imitation of my own past and present. Barbara Hepworth imitation past art I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create. Barbara Hepworth impulse clear form I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep. Barbara Hepworth yards block sheep Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. Barbara Hepworth hybridity yield produce Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape. Barbara Hepworth primitive-man drawing men My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence). Barbara Hepworth left-hand hands thinking The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. Barbara Hepworth sculpture passionate principles Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate. Barbara Hepworth land sight ideas Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
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