I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
Interpretation
Drawing enhances one's perception and appreciation of the world.
In this quote, Henry Moore expresses how the act of drawing allows individuals to engage more deeply with their surroundings. It suggests that the creative process not only reflects the external reality but also enriches one's inner experience and understanding, making one more aware of the nuances of their environment.
In practice
During an art class, a teacher might reference this quote to inspire students to draw and express their unique perspectives.
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
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