Henry Moore Quotes

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

Form follows beauty.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Every How is carried by a What.

What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced. The mind feels its way into the very depths of the picture. The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.

Space is absolutely a 3-D world in comparison to our 2-D world on Earth.

If there's anything consistent about my work, it's not flat.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

The other thing - and writers can say whatever they want - is casting. You need to find a person who can inhabit that role, who can not sugarcoat the bad stuff, and not be too hard on the good stuff, but who can come across as a three-dimensional human being with some depth and some thought about what they're doing. When you find James Gandolfini or Jon Hamm, someone who can inhabit this role but still has a natural humanity to them, no matter what they're doing? It's a gift.

Always stand by form against force.