Art Quote by Anonymous

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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

— Jean Cocteau

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently.

— Anonymous

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

“Give a poet a pen”

— A. Jarrell Hayes

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

— Paul Gauguin

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a…

— Yang Wanli

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

— Simonides

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“I write with my paintbrush, and paint with my pen”

— Uvi Poznansky

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

— Plutarch

“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each stroke.”

— Melissa Regas