Explore Quotes by Henry Moore

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.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

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.

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

To be an artist is to believe in life.