There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.

Henry Moore Quotes