Paintbrush Quotes

• Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Coats, Paint

  "Tech gurus drum up ideas for a better world / Annual Technology Entertainment Design conference pushes leading thinkers, doers to solve big challenges" by Tom Abate, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2006.

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• Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Color, Mind

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.290, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Canvas, Paint

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Attitude, Color, Stay Positive

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• If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

  Dawn French

  Moss, Fabulous, Painting

  "The Myth of Universal Beauty" by David Robson, www.bbc.com. June 23, 2015.

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• You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

  Heidi Baker

  Artist, Hands

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• Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Reality, Artist, People

  "Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Yazmany Arboleda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Color, Creating

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• How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, People, Used

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• Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tools, Done, Fear Of Failure

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Knives, Wake Up

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• The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

  Andrew Davidson

  Regret, Yesterday, Today

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.132, Anchor

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• What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Communication, Thinking

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• The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Funny, Stupid, Artist

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• I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Army, Hair, Voice

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Past, Cheerful, Language

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• I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

  Todd McFarlane

  Book, Writing, Artist

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• How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

  Stephen King

  Draws, Knows, Pencils

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

  Ariel Garten

  Powerful, Technology, Simple

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• There is nothing more humanly beautiful than a woman's breasts. Nothing more humanly beautiful, nothing more humanly mysterious than why men should want to caress, over and over again, with paintbrush or chisel or hand, these oddly curved fatty sacs, and nothing more humanly endearing than our complicity (I mean the complicity of women) in their obsession.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage!

  Meredith Ostrom

  People, Skins, Savages

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Husband, Drinking

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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