Henry Moore Quotes

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

The art of making art, is putting it together.

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.