Paint Protection

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

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

A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face. - Robert M. Hensel

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

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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In the end it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. - George Clooney

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. - Anna Quindlen

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. - Steven Wright

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. - Edgar Degas

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. - Cher

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and bones. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

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

I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A cement mixer has collided with a prison van. Motorists are asked to look out for 16 hardened criminals. - Ronnie Corbett

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself if you wish to get others. - David Seabury

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. - Toni Sorenson

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

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

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

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

Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark ... to have been loved so deeply ... will give us some protection forever. - J K Rowling

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window. - Nancy Werlin

When I walk down the street in New York, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, "Hey, you hockey puck!" - Don Rickles

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful – there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics. - Godfrey Hardy

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. - Pablo Picasso

Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring. - Dogen

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring. - India de Beaufort