A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

— Henry Moore

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

— Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.

— Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

— Henry Moore

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

— Henry Moore

I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?

— Henry Moore

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

— Henry Moore

Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it from underneath see it from one view hold it against the sky imagine it any size I like and really be in control almost like God creating something.

— Henry Moore

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

— Henry Moore