Art Quote by Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Simonides

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

— Gregory of Nyssa

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you hear a voice within you say you can not paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced…

— Melchor Lim