Artist Quote by Joan Miro

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create…

— Amit Kalantri

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as…

— Ben Shahn

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it,…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg