Capable Quote by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

— Anais Nin

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

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

— John Updike

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him…

— Wayne Dyer

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

— Arthur Boyd

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

— William Shakespeare

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not…

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising…

— Joshua Reynolds

“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say,…

— Jonathan Lethem