Paint Protection

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

Every good painter paints what he is. - Rembrandt Van Rijn

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

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

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

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

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

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

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

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

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

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

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

Lawyers are like painters - once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again. - Peter A Graham

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

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

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 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

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

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

We've just heard that in the English Channel, a ship carrying red paint has collided with a ship carrying purple paint. It is believed that both crews have been marooned. - Ronnie Corbett

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What humans can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. - Abraham Maslow

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