Art Quote by Margaret Atwood

“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he had not…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“However...who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"?”

— Barnes Flaubert

“I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.”

— Paula McLain

“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All…

— John Fowles

“No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.”

— F.K. Preston

“You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more…

— Sariah Wilson