Painter Quote by Frank O'Hara

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work…

— Howard Nemerov

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And…

— Joni Mitchell

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

— Damien Hirst

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that…

— LeRoy Neiman

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on,…

— A. E. Housman

“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a…

— Virginia Woolf

I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so…

— Arthur Honegger

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed…

— David Markson