Henry Moore Quotes

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

~ Henry Moore

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

~ Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

~ Henry Moore

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.

~ Henry Moore

The important thing is somehow to begin.

~ Henry Moore

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it but you can recognize it.

~ Henry Moore

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

~ Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

~ Henry Moore

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. 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.

~ Henry Moore

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

~ Henry Moore

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

~ Henry Moore

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

~ Henry Moore