Zitat des Tages von Henry Moore:
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Everything I do is intended to be big.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass.
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious.
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.