“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.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingStoriesComedyPaintingPoetPaintPainterNot SureShort StoryEstimation Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.” NeedsHandsEyeTalentPaintingPoetPainterPlusCoordination Author:Robert Breault
“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.” WayWritingSchoolArtistLanguageMovementPaintingPoetNovelistsIrritatingAppreciativeAllegory Author:A. S. Byatt
“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.” IfsWayDoeEyeChoicesUnderstandingFailingSubjectsMankindCreationPaintingPoetEarsSatisfactionWidePainter Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.” HumansLittlesRealMomentsHelpingBitsHuman BeingsPaintingPoetSpeechLittle BitExtremesReal LifeRetreatPain In Life Author:Francesco Clemente
“What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.” IfsArtPaintingPoetFineBasesCelebrateConceptionDeniedPortraitsHistoricFine ArtsProvincesTheoristsTouchstonesPortraiture Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel
“To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.” ProblemTurnsLiteraturePaintingPoetPainterDiscussion Author:Wallace Stevens
“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.” ArtLyingLeftBehindsHalfGracePaintingPoetMastersActivitySoldierFinishedThinkerReplacedLeft BehindStatesmenProvincesCompletionGod's GraceGreat Poet Author:Adolf Hitler
“When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.” ActionCoursesProducePaintingPoetIntentionEndeavour Author:Pablo Picasso