“The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists se...” — Henry Moore Quote

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.

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.