Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and…

“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

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

— Allen Ginsberg

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

— Joan Miro

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or…

— Thomas Cole

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…

— James Whistler

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

— Viggo Mortensen

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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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