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 past separation
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
art degrees art-is
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
art sides human-life
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
memories artist two
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.
art struggle drawing
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
views hands sky
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.
enthusiasm greater
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
positive thinking given
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
communication eye artist
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.
drawing humanity balance
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.
important important-things
The important thing is somehow to begin.
art grateful school
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.
independent light may
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
art jobs mistake
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.