Lazy Line Painters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things. - Unknown

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

When the devil finds a lazy woman, he puts her to work. - Russian Proverb

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper

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

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

The best way to get something done quickly is to give it to a lazy person. - Joe-kster

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

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

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

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. - Barbara Streisand

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. - Bill Vaughan

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein

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

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

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan. - Larry Winget

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

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 get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. - Steven Wright

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. - Steven Wright

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. - Murphy's Laws

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

If people lived to be a thousand years old, there'd be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65 years on earth, and then multiply that by 15.
 - Jarod Kintz