Artist Quote by Robert Burns

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical…

— Jandy Nelson

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for…

— Wallace Stevens

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

— Robert Wyatt

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest…

— Pico Iyer

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin