"Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate."

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Source : Studio International 171, p.280, June 1966.

Barbara Hepworth

#Sight Quotes #Land Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.”
“I dont have the confidence to be a personality.”
“Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury”
“There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.”
“Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.”
“Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world”
“I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.”
“There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.”

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