A Quote by Robert Burns
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.
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