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 pieces stones
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
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.
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.
art soul spirit
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
art art-is our-lives
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
mean emotional interpretation
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
celebration celebration-of-life
I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature..
thinking people
People think that they see, but they don't.
ideas size
There is a right physical size for every idea.
pieces shapes size
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.
drawing sometimes enjoyment
I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.