Henry Moore

To be an artist is to believe in life.
-Henry Moore

There are universal shapes to which everyone is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
-Henry Moore

The work of art with what might be called prophetic vision is doing more for art than the public authority that plays for safety and gives the public what the public does not object to.
-Henry Moore

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

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.
-Henry Moore

I've always loved drawings.. when you draw you look much more intensely at something.
-Henry Moore