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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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

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  My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

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  I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

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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.

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  The naturalness of life… the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist’s life.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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  Body experience… is the centre of creation.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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