
= "A picture is a silent poem." tacitus,a, um = "silent (tacit)," a synonym of mutus, a, um. This could be "A poem is a silent picture" but I think Cinefactus meant pictura poema tacitum est.

However if you like the quotation you found, it means "a picture is a silent (mute) poem."ĭecimus' Pictura sine verbis poema est = "A picture is a poem without words."Ĭinefactus' pictura poema tacita est. "Painting as poetry it will be which, if you stand near, it may captivate you more, and another, if you stand away farther this one loves the dark, this one, which does not fear the argued sting of the judge, wishes to be seen under the light this one pleases once, this one will please ten times repeated."

Ut pictura poesis erit quae, si propius stes, te capiat magis, et quaedam, si longius abstes haec amat obscurum, volet haec sub luce videri, iudicis argutum quae non formidat acumen haec placuit semel, haec deciens repetita placebit.

If you want what Horace actually wrote, from Ars Poetica, the entire sentence is:
