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«Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech»
Author: Simonides | About: Painting, Poetry | Keywords: gift, painting, poetry, silent, speech, The Gift
«Sunlight is painting.»
«Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Painting | Keywords: diaries, diary, keeping, painting
«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
«Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.»
«Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: close to, fancy, One Piece, painting
«Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen»
«Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.»
«Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.»
«See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.»

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