Barbara Hepworth Quotes

Barbara Hepworth

English Artist

Born: May 20, 1903

Died: Jan 10, 1975

Details Entirely Form Master Work You

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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. Barbara Hepworth

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

Space Pleasure Purpose Abstract Most Piercing Make Felt Doing Intense Stone Quite Sensation Different Order Form Realism

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

Master Must Details Entirely Structure Perhaps Execution Material Surface Yield Handling Tiny Grain Sensitive Whole

Body experience... is the centre of creation. Barbara Hepworth

Experience Creation Centre Body

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