Barbara Hepworth Quotes

"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
(Related: Execution, Yield)

"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."
- Barbara Hepworth
(Related: Body)

"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
(Related: Purpose, Order, Pleasure, Realism, Space)

"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
(Related: Work, Will, Yield)

"Body experience... is the centre of creation."
- Barbara Hepworth
(Related: Experience, Body, Creation)

"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."
- Barbara Hepworth
(Related: Art, Men, Thought, Conflict, Consciousness, Man)

"My works are an imitation of my own past and present."
- Barbara Hepworth
(Related: Imitation, Past, Present)