I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil … - Henry Moore

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Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

Henry Moore

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.

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If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.

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