Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
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.
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.