Henry Moore quote: "So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms."

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps...
HENRY MOORE

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
HENRY MOORE

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. A...
HENRY MOORE

I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already b...
HENRY MOORE

Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air ...
HENRY MOORE

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring ...
HENRY MOORE

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
HENRY MOORE

Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is m...
HENRY MOORE

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made ...
HENRY MOORE

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of ...
HENRY MOORE

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases ...
HENRY MOORE

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
HENRY MOORE

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by soun...
HENRY MOORE

To know one thing, you must know the opposite
HENRY MOORE

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one...
HENRY MOORE

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
HENRY MOORE

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor...
HENRY MOORE

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a dis...
HENRY MOORE

There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can re...
HENRY MOORE

The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can it...
HENRY MOORE

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
HENRY MOORE

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I ...
HENRY MOORE

There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the...
HENRY MOORE

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
HENRY MOORE

In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and als...
HENRY MOORE

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art...
HENRY MOORE

Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface ex...
HENRY MOORE

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE

I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it w...
MANDY MOORE

I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
MANDY MOORE

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I an...
MANDY MOORE

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebr...
MANDY MOORE

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their h...
MANDY MOORE

I do think it's possible to change for the better.
MANDY MOORE

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not ...
MANDY MOORE

It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeo...
MANDY MOORE

We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th...
MANDY MOORE

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organizati...
MANDY MOORE

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
MANDY MOORE

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my expe...
MANDY MOORE

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global h...
MANDY MOORE

In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school a...
MANDY MOORE

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The fi...
MANDY MOORE

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
MANDY MOORE

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in...
MANDY MOORE

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not pr...
MANDY MOORE

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potentia...
MANDY MOORE

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytel...
MANDY MOORE

I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
MANDY MOORE

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any re...
THURSTON MOORE

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
RICH MOORE

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE

War is a perversion of sex.
ALAN MOORE

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When y...
ALAN MOORE

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr...
ALAN MOORE

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language...
ALAN MOORE

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
ALAN MOORE

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christi...
ALAN MOORE

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i...
ALAN MOORE

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
ALAN MOORE

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...
ALAN MOORE

Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch...
ALAN MOORE

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to wh...
SHEMAR MOORE

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE

There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book ...
SCOTTY MOORE

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE

After all there is but one race -- humanity.
GEORGE MOORE

Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Vict...
THOMAS MOORE

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
JOE MOORE

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all g...
LORRIE MOORE

There are many, many instances where we've found that the cities that agreed to eminent domain use n...
ADRIAN MOORE

It's crazy to think about replacing existing successful small businesses with other businesses.
ADRIAN MOORE

We're not talking about using it to build new roads or dams or power lines. We're talking about givi...
ADRIAN MOORE

Taking people's property away for a public interest is one thing, but taking it away to give to anot...
ADRIAN MOORE

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
ALAN MOORE

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in...
ALAN MOORE

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain ...
GEORGE MOORE

Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Trut...
MICHAEL MOORE

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
MARIANNE MOORE

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.
THOMAS MOORE

All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made ...
THOMAS MOORE

How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds hav...
THOMAS MOORE

To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!
THOMAS MOORE

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
MARIANNE MOORE

Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps ...
THOMAS MOORE

We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE

These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE

I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE

Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE

We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE

Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE

The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
THOMAS MOORE

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
ALAN MOORE

She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is...
ADDISON MOORE

Children see magic because they look for it.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
ALAN MOORE

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
GEORGE MOORE

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of ma...
MARIANNE MOORE

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MOORE

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
MARIANNE MOORE

Language is a field of battle, the media is the artillery, and vocabulary is the ammunition. The NWO...
RICHARD MOORE

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,
When absent souls in fancy meet.
THOMAS MOORE

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
ROGER MOORE

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
GRACE MOORE

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cor...
GEORGE MOORE

He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain...
JOHN MOORE

If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional indiv...
THOMAS MOORE

The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE

It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that...
GREG MOORE

It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that ...
DEMI MOORE

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
MARIANNE MOORE

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MOORE

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
FRANKFORT MOORE

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
MARIANNE MOORE

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's ow...
GEORGE MOORE

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but ev...
MARIANNE MOORE

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE

The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain
could not break his proud soul under.
The harp he lov...
THOMAS MOORE

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
GEORGE MOORE

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE

'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE

Superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out t...
GEORGE MOORE

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE MOORE

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, ...
THOMAS MOORE

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
GEORGE MOORE

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
GEORGE MOORE

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.
MARCIA MOORE

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE

Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the w...
THOMAS MOORE

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE

Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food ...
THOMAS MOORE

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE

Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE

This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, T...
THOMAS MOORE

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE

Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the counci...
THOMAS MOORE

Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congeal...
THOMAS MOORE

One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeanc...
THOMAS MOORE

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
THOMAS MOORE

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MOORE

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty
HANNAH MOORE

Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?...
THOMAS MOORE

Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world i...
THOMAS MOORE

How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, ...
THOMAS MOORE

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See...
THOMAS MOORE

Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red; Gradual tints, as when there glows In snowy...
THOMAS MOORE

There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, ...
THOMAS MOORE

Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.
MARIANNE MOORE

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage
MARIANNE MOORE

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its or...
ALAN MOORE

Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? ALAN MOORE

Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas o...
ALAN MOORE

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...
ALAN MOORE

You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Ha...
ALAN MOORE

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is t...
ALAN MOORE

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
ALAN MOORE

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
ALAN MOORE

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do...
ALAN MOORE

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ...
ALAN MOORE

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, ...
ALAN MOORE

Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what...
ALAN MOORE

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made...
ALAN MOORE

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
ALAN MOORE

Love your rage, not your cage.
ALAN MOORE

God is in the rain.
ALAN MOORE

I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care, I am me....
ALAN MOORE

Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their powe...
ALAN MOORE

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...
ALAN MOORE

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragi...
ALAN MOORE

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
ALAN MOORE

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the ...
ALAN MOORE

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
ALAN MOORE

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found som...
ALAN MOORE

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybo...
ALAN MOORE

So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms.

Henry Moore

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