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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.

Source: In An Artist's Book of Inspiration, by Astrid Fitzgerald, 1996.
-- Barbara Hepworth, (Jan 10 1903-1975), English sculptor; She designed large geometric shapes from wood and stone; introduced the hole, painted hollows to abstract sculpture.


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