The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether…

“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the nearest thing…

— George Eliot

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

— George Eliot

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs,…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

— Frank O'Hara

What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance…

— Barnett Newman

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

— Celia Thaxter

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

— Horace

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.'…

— Allan Kaprow

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but…

— John Ruskin

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work…

— Howard Nemerov

“If you find someone you're in love with that's also your friend, wouldn't that be the greatest benefit.”

— Ellie Hart