One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the …

- Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and …

- Barbara Hepworth

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

- Barbara Hepworth

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

- Barbara Hepworth

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people …

- Barbara Hepworth

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills we…

- Barbara Hepworth

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

- Barbara Hepworth

I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which re…

- Barbara Hepworth

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

- Barbara Hepworth