Quotes by Barbara Hepworth - Page 1

Body experience... is the centre of creation.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Art
Body
Centre
Creation
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Art
Imitation
Past
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Art
Smile
Body
Draws
Feels
Feel
Draw
Rarely
See
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I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Form
Hollow
Thrust
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I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Block
Sheep
Yards
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My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Hands
Left Hand
Thinking
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The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Failing
Succeed
United Nations
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Artist
Community
Thinking
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Found
Midnight
Work Day Every Day
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I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Clear
Form
Impulse
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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.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Passionate
Principles
Sculpture
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[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Creative
Emotional
Past
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Space
Abstract
Different
Intense
Order
Pleasure
Purpose
Realism
Sensation
Piercing
Stone
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Halfway
Hybrid
Hybridity
Produce
Tempted
Yield
Finally
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Art
Men
Complementary
Conflict
Consciousness
Masculine
No Point
Wish
Anonymous
Competitive
Enter
Point
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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.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Body
People
Sculpture
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Details
Execution
Grain
Sensitive
Structure
Surface
Tiny
Yield
Master
Entirely
Handling
Material
Perhaps
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My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Hands
Stones
Thinking
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Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Ideas
Land
Sight
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Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Ideas
Integrity
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Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Men
Drawing
Primitive Man
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I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Country
Inspiration
Moving
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All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.
Barbara Hepworth / Artist
Art
Father
Memories
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