Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

Henry Moore's Popular Quotes

The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him…

- Henry Moore

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

- 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 re…

- Henry Moore

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

- Henry Moore

To be an artist is to believe in life.

- Henry Moore

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help y…

- Henry Moore

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

- Henry Moore

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

- Henry Moore

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

- Henry Moore