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“Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.”

Reason Facts Painting Judging Superiors Poetry Is Presentation

Book:The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci

“Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.”

Results Painting Intuition Poetry Is Unfortunate Lifeless

Author:Georges Braque

“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”

Men Life Is Poetry Painting Poetry Is

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.”

Moments Poetry Painting Poetry Is Sculpture Moments Of Life

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

“Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.”

Color Painting Photography Oil Prose Poetry Is

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.”

Mind Poetry Painting Poetry Is

Author:Sonia Orwell

“My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.”

Way Long Stories Father Fiction Struggle Painting Materials Long Time Immigrants Poetry Is Right Way Eighteen Raw Materials

Author:Philip Schultz