English - Sculptor | July 30, 1898 - August 31, 1986
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Henry Moore
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
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I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
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I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already become teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.
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I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.
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So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms.
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Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.
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In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.
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Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form.
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There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
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Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere.
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Everything I do is intended to be big.
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