Lazy Line Painters

Parking is such street sorrow. - Herb Caen

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

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

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face. - Robert M. Hensel

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

When the devil finds a lazy woman, he puts her to work. - Russian Proverb

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. - Francis Crick

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. - Steven Wright

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

The best way to get something done quickly is to give it to a lazy person. - Joe-kster

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

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

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. - Edgar Degas

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

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. - Barbara Streisand

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. - Bill Vaughan

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein

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

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan. - Larry Winget

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

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. - Bill Vaughan

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch." - Phyllis Diller

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy. - Shirley Conran

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. - Steven Wright

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. - Murphy's Laws

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

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

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