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Quote by James McNeill Whistler
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.
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The quote compares music and painting to poetry in different senses. Music gives shape and feeling to sound, while painting gives shape and feeling to what we see. Like poetry, both arts turn ordinary sensory experience into something arranged, expressive, and open to interpretation.
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- The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow
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- Official Statement
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