Hepworth Sculpture Quotes

#1. There are moments that we simply cannot endure. They transform us into someone else.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#2. 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

#3. There was a time when I was really going to give up acting
right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.

Angelina Jolie

#4. 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

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

Barbara Hepworth

#6. Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

Ty Warner

#7. Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.

Ben Stewart

#8. I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

Muriel Spark

#9. 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

#10. I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Mike Tyson

#11. Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.

Warren Spector

#12. My hope for AI and Facebook in the next decade is you can sit down and tell Facebook, 'This is what I want to hear about today.' Like, I'm having a bad day; I want to hear some good news. If we make our products better, more people will use it - people use it more. It's fairly easy to understand.

Mike Schroepfer

#13. There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Jodi Picoult