About Henry Moore: Henry Spencer Moore was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
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.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
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.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
