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The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form-knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration

— Henry Moore ‎Sir Herbert Edward Read, ‎David Sylvester (1957)

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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The Negroes.. ..their unique claim for admiration is their power to produce form completely in the round.. .Negro sculpture is completely in the round, fully-conceived air-surrounded form.

What is a cave? A cave is a shape. It’s not the lump of mountain over it.

My sculpture is becoming less representational, less an outward visual copy, and so what some people would call more abstract; but only because I believe in that in this way I can present the human psychological content of my work with the greatest directness and intensity.

I find myself lined up with the surrealists because Surrealism means freedom for the creative side of man, for surprise & discovery & life, for an opening out & widening of mans consciousness, for changing life & against conserving worn out traditions, for variety not a uniformity, for opening not closing.

Unpublished notes' for 'The Sculptor Speaks (1937)

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