Ink Birds

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

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

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

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

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

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

Egg: 1. A day's work for a hen; 2. A bird's hometown. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis

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

A portrait is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth. - Eugene Speicher

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

Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts. - Michael Biondi

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

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

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

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. - Rodney Dangerfield

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie

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

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie

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

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

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

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

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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