Ink Birds

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. - Alejandro Jodorowsky

How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? - Steven Wright

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten. - Norman Augustine

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

The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. - Robert Lynd

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. - Steven Wright

Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts. - Michael Biondi

I know of only one bird (the parrot) that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

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

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. - Mark Nepo

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. - Chinese Proverb

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

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge