Ink Birds

Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb

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

The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Unknown

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

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

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

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. - Harvey Mackay

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

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

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

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte

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 may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

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

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

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

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

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan

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

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

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

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

We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright

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

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

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

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

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. - Julie Murphy

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

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

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