Courses Quote by e. e. cummings

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

— Claude Monet

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

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

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

— Anonymous

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Plutarch

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space…

— Ralph Goings

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

— Simonides

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod

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

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