“This is what the sculptor must do. He must strive continually to think of, and use, form in its full spatial completeness. He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head - he thinks of it, whatsoever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand. He mentally visualizes a complete form..”

—  Henry Moore

Quote of Moore from his text 'The sculptor speaks' (1937), p. unknown
1925 - 1940

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