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Quotations dealing with Words, Poetry and Painting, quotes of the physical results of artistic expression.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
-- Alice Walker
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Writers need to write. When you aren't writing, you aren't certain you exist.
-- Sophy Burnham
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
-- Gloria Steinem
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When you have nothing to say, you write anyway, if only to keep in practice.
-- Sophy Burnham
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley
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Writing energy is like anything else: The more you put in, the more you get out.
-- Richard Reeves
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Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
-- Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne)
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye
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The primary purpose of imagery is not to entertain but to awaken in the reader his or her own sense of wonder.
-- Tom Robbins
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
-- Mark Twain
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
-- John M. Keynes
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All good things are wild, and free.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
-- Leonard Bernstein
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
-- Menander
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There is no perfect time to write. There's only now.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
-- Marianne Moore
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
-- Lord Byron
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It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-- Macbeth, Act V, Sc 5.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling
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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
-- M.C. Richards
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I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
-- Marc Chagall
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You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
-- Duke Ellington
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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
-- Claus Oldenburg
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True creativity often starts where language ends.
-- Arthur Koestler
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
-- Hazzrat Inayat Khan
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
-- George Tooker
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