I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
Source: In Artists in Quotation, by Donna Ward La Cour, 1989.
-- Henry Moore, (Jul 30 1898-1986), English sculptor; He was an abstract sculptor known as The Father of the Hole.