Art Quote by Sigbjørn Obstfelder

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

— Anne Hebert

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

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

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

— Kehinde Wiley

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Poetry is mostly hunches.

— John Ashbery

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

— Plato