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Barbara Hepworth Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



[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. . .

[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. . .



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

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



I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.



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.

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.





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