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Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. — Edmund Burke

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting. — Wallace Stevens

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind. — Sonia Orwell

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. — Georges Braque

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting — Leonardo Da Vinci

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. — Michael Graves

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime. — Elizabeth Bishop

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. — Susan Vreeland

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air. — Jenim Dibie

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

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. — Viggo Mortensen

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery. — Marie-Antoine Careme

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other. — Pierre Coupey

Level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting — Elif Shafak

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer

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

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. — David Hume

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. — Cesar Vallejo

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law,
The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan. — Cheng Man-ch'ing

Painting is silent poetry. — Plutarch

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

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry — Thomas Cole

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. — James Whistler

I make no distinction between poetry and painting. — Joan Miro

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting. — Salvador De Madariaga

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean De La Bruyere

Paint me perfect poetry. — N'Zuri Za Austin

Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper. — Avijeet Das

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting. — Ahdaf Soueif

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors. — Austin O'Malley