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. Henry Moore More Quotes by Henry Moore More Quotes From Henry Moore Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. Henry Moore garden air country 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. Henry Moore play order art Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. Henry Moore separation past art All art is an abstraction to some degree. Henry Moore art-is degrees art Art is to make our lives richer and fuller. Henry Moore art-is our-lives art Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. Henry Moore artist clever people I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. Henry Moore enjoyment drawing sometimes The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. Henry Moore pieces stones art 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. Henry Moore balls shapes children 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. Henry Moore grateful art school 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. Henry Moore active practice art A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. Henry Moore sculpture pieces shapes People think that they see, but they don't. Henry Moore people thinking 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. Henry Moore twelve dream thinking I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature. Henry Moore celebration-of-life celebration There is a right physical size for every idea. Henry Moore size ideas 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. Henry Moore drawing eye ideas 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. Henry Moore artist memories two Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. Henry Moore release energy talking Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume. Henry Moore surface volume thinking
