“You painted a lovely picture of the future and told me to meet you there. Well I'm here unlike your canvas, tired, tattered, torn and bare.”
Timothy Correa
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can”
Danny Kaye
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
“I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...”
Vincent van Gogh
