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All art is an abstraction to some degree.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Henry Moore
Art, Degrees, Art Is
Henry Moore (2013). “On Being a Sculptor”, p.20, Tate Enterprises Ltd

There is a right physical size for every idea.

Henry Moore
Ideas, Size
Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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.

Henry Moore
Sculpture, Pieces, Shapes
Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

People think that they see, but they don't.

Henry Moore
Thinking, People

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

Henry Moore
Eye, Ideas, Drawing

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

Henry Moore
Clever, Artist, People

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.

Henry Moore
Art, Grateful, School

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Henry Moore
Art, Struggle, Drawing

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.

Henry Moore
Memories, Artist, Two

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Moore
Drawing, Sometimes, Enjoyment
Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Henry Moore
Talking, Energy, Release

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