Paint Protection

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

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

I don't say everything, but I paint everything. - Pablo Picasso

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. - Henry G Bohn

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

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. - Anna Quindlen

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

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

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

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

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

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. - Rodney Dangerfield

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud

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

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 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

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

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. - George Lucas

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

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

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

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

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do. - Gary Vaynerchuk

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

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

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring. - Dogen

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