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

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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

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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

[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
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
BARBARA HEPWORTH

Imitation
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.
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Wish
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

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

Stones
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

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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Details Tiny Yield
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

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
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

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

Form
I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

BARBARA HEPWORTH

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.
BARBARA HEPWORTH

Block Sheep Yards
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

BARBARA HEPWORTH

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

Draws
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

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

Order
I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

BARBARA HEPWORTH

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour
BARBARA HEPWORTH

Form Hollow Thrust
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

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

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

BARBARA HEPWORTH

The naturalness of life… the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist’s life.
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Community
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you’re professional or you’re not.

BARBARA HEPWORTH

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

BARBARA HEPWORTH

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

Left Swquence
Body experience… is the centre of creation.
BARBARA HEPWORTH

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