English - Sculptor | July 30, 1898 - August 31, 1986
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Henry Moore
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The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass.
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Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
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The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. 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.
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
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I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.
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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.
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
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The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.
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In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.
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Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious.
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