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.
About Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture.
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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.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
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.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
Body experience… is the centre of creation.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you’re professional or you’re not.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
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.
English sculptor (1903-1975)
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.
English sculptor (1903-1975)