A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Moore draws a simple taxonomy of the arts by identifying each medium’s primary object of attention: form for the sculptor, language for the poet, and sound for the musician. The remark underscores his modernist conviction that artistic meaning is inseparable from material and sensory properties—sculpture thinks through volume, mass, contour, and spatial relationships rather than through narrative or verbal explanation. At the same time, the parallel structure implies an equality among disciplines: each art has its own “grammar,” and mastery comes from sustained sensitivity to what the medium uniquely affords. The quote also hints at Moore’s belief that abstraction and direct engagement with form can be as expressive as representational content.