Body experience… is the centre of creation.
BARBARA HEPWORTH
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you’re professional or you’re not.
More Barbara Hepworth Quotes
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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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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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[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. . .
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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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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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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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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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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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My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).
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I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour
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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.
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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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