Art Quote by Steve Erickson

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

— Jostein Gaarder

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

— James Baldwin

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“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

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“You must be an artist and an actor.”

— Ehab Atalla

“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”

— Anonymous

“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“An artist bears no gender.”

— Don Santo

“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”

— Sara Baume

“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”

— Vladimir Nabokov