Art Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Plutarch

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human…

— Francesco Clemente

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

— Simonides

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

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

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…

— Jean Dubuffet

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill