Ink Birds

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

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

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas

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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

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

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

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. - Abdul Kalam

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

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

Egg: 1. A day's work for a hen; 2. A bird's hometown. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano

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

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

A portrait is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth. - Eugene Speicher

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living - e e cummings

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

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost. - Arthur Miller

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

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

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Ogden Nash

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche

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

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

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

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo