„I am not a purely abstract artist, and I have never tried to be. I have three or four unending themes, and the basis of all my work is the human figure. A sculpture of mine has to have a top and bottom, a head and body. It might seem to some people to be abstract, but I know which part is the head, which part is an arm, which part is a child. Animals also have something of the same human quality. They have heads, bodies and legs, and even trees remind me of human beings. All artists have some subjects that excite them more than others, and the sheep became one of those obsessive subjects.” (Henry Moore)

Quelle: Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook, Thames & Hudson, London 2004