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Top 10 Barbara Hepworth Quotes (2025 Update)

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

1. “I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.”

2. “The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension – the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.”

3. “The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension – the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

4. “I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.”

5. “My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.”

6. “It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you’re professional or you’re not.”

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

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.”

9. “I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “My works are an imitation of my own past and present.”

10. “My works are an imitation of my own past and present.”

— Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “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.”

11. “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

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

12. “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

Barbara Hepworth Quote: “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.”

13. “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

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