"In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture."

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Source : Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.198, Univ of California Press

Henry Moore

#Animal Quotes #People Quotes #Sculpture Quotes

“Think health, talk health, visualize health and better health will be your reward.”
“Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.”
“The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”
“I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.”
“You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.”
“Sometimes the things youâ€™ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.”
“Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”
“Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.”

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