Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship…

— Gerard Malanga

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

— Simonides

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

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part…

— Kenneth Koch

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

— Su Shi

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without…

— Joan Miro

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde