Henry Moore Drawing Quotations

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.