Cannot Quote by Maria Montessori

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the…

— Jane Hirshfield

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

— Andre Lhote

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

— Joan Miro

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and…

— Paul Gauguin

[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about…

— Jim Jarmusch

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles…

— Eugene Delacroix

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but…

— Romare Bearden

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what…

— Adrienne Rich

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney