Art Quote by Horace

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in…

— Horace

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical…

— Jandy Nelson

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for…

— Wallace Stevens

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

— Paolo Veronese

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest…

— Pico Iyer

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

— Robert Wyatt

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their…

— Horace

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

— Horace

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man

— Horace