Barbara Hepworth Quotes

• My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand.

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• There is an inside and an outside to every form.

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• Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.

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• Body experience… is the centre of creation.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

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• 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.

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Barbara Hepworth (11)

Birth:	10th January, 1903
Death:	20th May, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist

About

Dame Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was "one of the few women artists to achieve international prominence." Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St. Ives during the Second World War.

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