in a letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 6 November, 1955; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, 2006, p. 34
Baziotes' quote is referring to his painting 'Pompeii', Baziotes painted in 1955
1950s
“I have always been interested in oval or ovoid shapes. The first carvings were simple realistic oval forms of the human head or of a bird. Gradually my interest grew in more abstract values – the weight, poise and curvature of the ovoid as a basic form. The carving and piercing of such a form seems to open up an infinite variety of continuous curves in the third dimension, changing in accordance with the contours of the original ovoid and with the degree of penetration of the material. Here is a sufficient field for exploration to last a lifetime..”
Source: 1932 - 1946, The Studio 132:643', (1946), p. 279
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English sculptor 1903–1975Related quotes

quote from an extract of 'Barbara Hepworth – the Sculptor carves because he must, The Studio, London, vol. 104, December 1932, p. 332
1932 - 1946

Source: 1961 - 1975, Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial autobiography', 1970, p. 285

Source: 1932 - 1946, The Studio 132:643', (1946), p. 279

Source: 1961 - 1975, Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial autobiography', 1970, p. 284

Hepworth's quote in: 'Approach to Sculpture', The Studio, London, October 1946, Vol. CXXXII, no. 643, p. 97
Hepworth is here referring to Giovanni Ardini's remark that "marble changes colour under different people's hands"
1932 - 1946
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Source: Research challenges in geovisualization (2001), p. 6-7