Photography, painting or poetry - those are just…

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

— Dennis Hopper

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

— Joan Miro

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and…

— Miroslav Tichy

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

— Jack Welpott

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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Photography is painting with light

— Miroslav Tichy

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

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed…

— Edward Hirsch

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

— Anonymous

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into…

— Criss Jami

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

— Franz Wright

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so…

— David Daiches