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I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart. -- Philip Guston
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. -- Plutarch
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. -- Rafael Moneo
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. -- Lord Byron
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. -- William Blake
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. -- Denis Diderot
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. -- Kenneth Koch
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. -- Steven Pinker
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that. -- Viggo Mortensen
Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support. -- Leon Black
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting. -- Ric Ocasek
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case. -- Etel Adnan
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions. -- J. G. Ballard
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one. -- Colm Toibin
In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry. -- Gene Luen Yang
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. -- Marcel Duchamp
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. -- Kenneth Koch
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. -- P. J. Harvey
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. -- George Edward Woodberry
Painting is silent poetry. -- Plutarch
I make no distinction between poetry and painting. -- Joan Miro
Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind. -- Sonia Orwell
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. -- Georges Braque
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. -- Walter Savage Landor
Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. -- Nicolas Poussin
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. -- Ernst Haas
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting. -- Wallace Stevens
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. -- Umberto Boccioni
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. -- Herbert Spencer
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. -- William Wordsworth
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. -- Diane Wakoski
Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause. -- Su Shi
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. -- Nicolas Poussin
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. -- William Blake
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. -- D.T. Suzuki
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. -- David Hume
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. -- Herbert Spencer
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. -- Viggo Mortensen
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. -- Joan Miro
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. -- Horace
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. -- Marie-Antoine Careme
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. -- Pierre Coupey
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. -- Susan Vreeland
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. -- Edmund Burke
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry -- Thomas Cole
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular. -- Rajneesh
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. -- John Quincy Adams
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. -- James Whistler
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. -- Michael Graves
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space. -- Curt Sachs
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself. -- Joan Miro
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things. -- John Adams
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature. -- James Freeman Clarke

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