Painter Quote by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

— Claude Monet

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

I have never been much of a painter.

— Christian Marclay

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to…

— Michelangelo

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

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

— John Adams

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

— Winston Churchill

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

— Nikky Finney