95 Quotes by Henry Moore

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

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.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

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 to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.

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.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.