Colour My World

It's a beautiful beege color. - Archie Bunker

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

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

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

Keep the paint up, and the rubber down. - Unknown

I must have flowers, always and always. - Claude Monet

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

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

Wine is the flower in the buttonhole of life. - Werumeus Buning

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

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

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. - H.L. Mencken

Tennis: a sport in which even an unseeded player can flower. - Unknown

The fuchsia is the world's most carefully spelled flower. - Jimmy Barnes

Since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid. - e e cummings

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

And 'tis my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes. - William Wordsworth

The farmer allows walkers across the field for free, but the bull charges. - Unknown

I did not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. - Henri Matisse

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. - Grace Hansen

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

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

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

Why buy flowers for Valentine's Day? Just go to a cemetery and collect a dozen off a few graves. - Jarod Kintz

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. - Edward de Bono

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. - Toni Morrison

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

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. - Timothy Noah