I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create. -Barbara Hepworth

 

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Barbara Hepworth quotes in our collection. Barbara Hepworth is known for saying 'I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Barbara Hepworth
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Barbara Hepworth
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Half-way 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
147

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Barbara Hepworth
143

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
139
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
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[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

Barbara Hepworth
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