Sea Painting

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. - George Burns

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

A lot of people attack the sea. I make love to it. - Jacques Cousteau

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

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold

I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan

I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi. - Suraj Sharma

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

If you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day. - Leonard Cohen

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. - Laird Hamilton

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryi Suzuki-roshi

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. - Henny Youngman

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

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

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed. - E. Jean Carroll

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. - Carl Schurz

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? - David Mitchell

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. - Steven Wright

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us. - Brent Staples

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater