Colour My World

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

To die in the flower of age is a life offered in sacrifice. - Madagascar Saying

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. - Henri Matisse

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field. - Carol Vorderman

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

I did not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. - Henri Matisse

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

Always it's Spring,and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. - e e cummings

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray

I want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

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

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. - Walter Lippmann

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. - Oscar Wilde

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared. - Unknown

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

Nobody sees a flower, really - it is so small - we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - Georgia O'Keefe

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

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. - Toni Morrison

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. - Timothy Noah

I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that. - Sonny B Williams

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