Everything I do is intended to be big. Henry Moore More Quotes by Henry Moore More Quotes From Henry Moore I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery. Henry Moore good-workmysteryart 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 gardenaircountry 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 playorderart Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. Henry Moore separationpastart All art is an abstraction to some degree. Henry Moore art-isdegreesart Art is to make our lives richer and fuller. Henry Moore art-isour-livesart Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. Henry Moore artistcleverpeople I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. Henry Moore enjoymentdrawingsometimes The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. Henry Moore piecesstonesart 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 ballsshapeschildren 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 gratefulartschool 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 activepracticeart 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 sculpturepiecesshapes People think that they see, but they don't. Henry Moore peoplethinking 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 twelvedreamthinking I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature. Henry Moore celebration-of-lifecelebration There is a right physical size for every idea. Henry Moore sizeideas 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 drawingeyeideas 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 artistmemoriestwo Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. Henry Moore releaseenergytalking
