Barbara Hepworth Quotes

#1. The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Barbara Hepworth

#2. 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

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

Barbara Hepworth

#4. Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Peter Straub

#5. I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Barbara Hepworth

#6. Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Mark Twain

#7. After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!' Upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face that Yes was wrong, cried out in chorus, 'No, sir!' - as the custom is, in these examinations. 'Of

Charles Dickens

#8. Thankfully, God's plans do not seem to be affected much by my own.

Katie J. Davis

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Barbara Hepworth

#13. What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

Dalai Lama XIV

#14. You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

Tony Burton

#15. This souls'prison we call England.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Barbara Hepworth

#17. Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.

Martin Yan

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

Barbara Hepworth

#19. 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

#20. 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.

Barbara Hepworth

#21. My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

Lauren Bush

#22. If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

#23. Body experience ... is the centre of creation.

Barbara Hepworth

#24. 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

#25. If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Bill Vaughan

#26. 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

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

Barbara Hepworth

#28. Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#29. 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.

Barbara Hepworth