"The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm."

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Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

Barbara Hepworth

#Principles Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.”
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
“End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.”
“I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.”
“How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury”
“I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.”
“Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.”
“I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry”

Source : Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage

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