Leonardo da Vinci Quote

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

Plutarch

• Poetry

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Paul Klee

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Georges Seurat

• Poetry

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Pablo Picasso

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

Andre Malraux

• Discovery
• Artist

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

Wim Wenders

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

Juliette Binoche

• Actress

Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.

Kate Winslet

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Dreams

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Charlie Chaplin

• Poetry

Sunlight is painting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Paul Cezanne

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

• Love
• Poetry

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Miguel de Cervantes

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Jean Cocteau

• Poetry

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

James Irwin

• Power

I've been things and seen places.

Mae West

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Tony Curtis