Colour My World

I want to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James R Lowell

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

I don't say everything, but I paint everything. - Pablo Picasso

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Love is a fair garden, and marriage a field of nettles. - Finnish Proverb

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field. - Carol Vorderman

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers. - Eden Robinson

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. - Molly McGee

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H L Mencken

You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it. - Edvard Munch

Autumn is mellower, and what we lost in flowers, we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. - Oscar Wilde

The grass withers, the flower fades
But the word of our God stands forever. - Isaiah 40:8

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha

Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it. - David Jeremiah

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. - Sammy Davis, Jr.

Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Jose L Borges

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. - Bhagavad Gita

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. - I Ching

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

The quality of a person's life is directly proportional to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. - William Butler Yeats

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James R Lowell