Brushes Quotes

• I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

  John Dyer

  Energy, Way, Paint

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• I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.

  Don Bluth

  Thinking, Style, Fabulous

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• When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

  Janine Turner

  Mistake, Desire, Asking For Forgiveness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will preach with my brush.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”

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• My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Memories, Children, Father

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Guitar, Frustrated

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• I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Paint, Therapists, Couches

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• Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

  Bobby Flay

  Oil, Pay, Sauce

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

  David Hockney

  Cameras, Kind, Computer

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• A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

  William Hazlitt

  Funny, Humor, Hair

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• The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

  Dorothy Parker

  Morning, Tongue, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

  Freya Stark

  Weed, Flower, Thinking

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• Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

  Michael K. Williams

  Choices, My Own, Bad Choices

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Fall, Autumn

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

  Andre Breton

  Reality, Process, Distressing

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• I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

  Zachary Levi

  Artist, Love Is, Able

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

  Theodore Gericault

  Imagination, Produce, Colour

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• There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

  Angela Carter

  Knowledge, Needs, About Yourself

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• I've learned to brush off many things.

  Katrina Bowden

  I've Learned

  "Face Time | Katrina Bowden". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. August 9, 2011.

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• All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Cheer, Tired

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

  Mort Walker

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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