Quotes About Art

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

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

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.