Color Quote by Paul Gauguin

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently.

— Anonymous

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

— Jean Cocteau

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

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for…

— Peter Wright

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

— Henri Matisse

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there…

— Tomi Ungerer

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

— Quentin Blake

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail…

— Joshua Reynolds