All good art has contained ...

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.
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 Henry Moore

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There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it.
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 Henry Moore
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
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 Henry Moore
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
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Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
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 Henry Moore