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"The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art."
~ Henry Moore
30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986 
~ Henry Moore
30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986
"I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on ... making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen." ~ Henry Moore
"The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this." ~ Henry Moore
"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely."
~ Henry Moore
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~ Henry Moore
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Knife Edge Two Piece (1962–65) (bronze), (1962), opposite House of Lords, London
"Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
Oval with Points (1968–70), Henry Moore Foundation
"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."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
Henry Moore, Nuclear Energy (1967), at the University of Chicago
"If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
Henry Moore, Large Square Form with Cut (1969–71), (marble), Piazza San Marco, Prato
"Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
Henry Moore, Sheep Piece (1971–72), Zürichhorn, Zürich-Seefeld, Switzerland
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"The important thing is somehow to begin."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration."
~ Henry Moore
!["The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration." ~ Henry Moore](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeKRTgqXgAAyb0Z.jpg "\"The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.\" ~ Henry Moore")
~ Henry Moore
"Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
"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."
~ Henry Moore
~ Henry Moore
