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In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

— Paul Gauguin

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person…

— Andre Malraux

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

— Plutarch

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul…

— Aphra Behn

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde