Top 39 Painting Poem Quotes
#1. You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
Rick Riordan
#2. He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
#3. A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
Keegan-Michael Key
#4. The realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
Karl Marx
#5. Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success
painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm
is all well and good, but if you haven't become famous doing it, then did it really matter?
Sophia Dembling
#7. Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and
if at all possible
speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. You are the greatest poem ever written.
You are the greatest song ever sung.
You are the greatest portrait ever painted.
You are the greatest symphony ever composed.
You are the greatest act ever performed.
You are the greatest masterpiece ever created.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.
Martin Page
#10. A poem is like a painting.
Horace
#11. One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime.
Elizabeth Bishop
#12. To identify with a psycopath
, is the proof you are not
E.webb
#13. We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz French Vanilla ice cream. But love is more than the sum of its parts, isn't it?
Lisa Unger
#14. Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
Satish Kumar
#15. Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
Loretta Napoleoni
#16. No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
Marguerite Duras
#17. There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.
Paula Hawkins
#18. The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#19. The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan Miro
#20. For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
Joan Miro
#21. Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. She was kissed By love
She was kissed With love
She kissed To Love devotedly. . .eternally.
Presentacion Valenzuela
#23. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray
Stella Coulson
#24. I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#25. I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana
#26. In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel
#27. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.
Jane Hirshfield
#28. The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it's not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.
Terri Windling
#29. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
Alistair Cooke
#30. She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.
Akshay Vasu
#31. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#32. A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
Walter J. Phillips
#33. At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
Joni Mitchell
#34. The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#35. When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
Osho
#36. I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.
J.J. Abrams
#38. A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror.
Debasish Mridha
#39. On his death bed, the eighteenth-century haiku poet Shisui had finally responded to requests for a death poem by grabbing his brush, painting his poem, and dying. On the paper Shisui's shocked followers saw he had painted a circle.
Richard Flanagan
