"It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole."

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Source : Interview in The Studio, 1962.

Barbara Hepworth

#People Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #Body Quotes

“To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.”
“Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.”

Source : Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”
“I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
“Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.”
“If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.”
“Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.”
“They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as betweenÂ cultures, is noÂ simple exchange”
“Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.”

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