Colour Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

— Eugene Delacroix

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

— Keith Crown

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

— Robert Hass

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord…

— Oscar Wilde

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

— Kehinde Wiley

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible…

— Sigmund Freud

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

— Kathleen Norris

“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of other artists,…

— Camile Pagli

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

— Julian Jaynes

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley