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“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

“And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.”

Inspirational Light Poetry Painting Letters Welcome Addresses Forgiven New Orleans Hurricanes Spray Porch

Author:Andrea Gibson

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

Wells Art Poetry Passion Powerful Painting Dominion Obscurity

Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

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

Mind Poetry Painting Poetry Is

Author:Sonia Orwell

“Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.”

Giving Poetry Objects Painting Connected

Book:Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets

Source: Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets