Art(212)

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
Albert Einstein

"So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge."
Alexander Eliot

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values."
T. S. Eliot

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
Henry Ellis

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"
M. C. Escher

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."
M. C. Escher

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."
M. C. Escher

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
William Faulkner

"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."
Jules Feiffer