Yes, Wordsworth often personified objects in nature and gav… - Henry Moore

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Yes, Wordsworth often personified objects in nature and gave them the human aspect, and personally I have done rather the reverse process in sculpture. I’ve often found that by taking formal ideas from landscape, and putting them into my sculpture I have, as it were, related a human figure to a mountain, and so got the same effect as a metaphor in painting.

Henry Moore

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Henry Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist and sculptor, best known for his monumental bronzes, which combined abstract art and Surrealism, as Moore frequently declared himself. He is famous for his many large sculptures, located worldwide as public works of art.

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Alternative Names: Henry Spencer Moore • Henari Mure • Henri Mur • Henri Mor • Henry II Moore • Heng-li Mo-erh • Henry Moore II

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Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

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