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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. -- Jackson Pollock
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. -- Abbey Lincoln
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
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
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
I will preach with my brush. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can. -- John Bonham
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. -- William Hazlitt
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. -- Mort Walker
Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint. -- Frank Bruno
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. -- Graham Hill
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. -- Dorothy Parker
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -- Henry Ward Beecher
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. -- Janine Turner
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing -- Christopher Fry
I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower. -- Susan Boyle
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work. -- John Dyer
If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that. -- Joseph Wambaugh
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same. -- Norman McLaren
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man. -- Robert Breault
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
History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. -- Lisa Snowdon
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit. -- Denise Richards
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
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
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
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. -- Edwin Edwards
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. -- Christopher Fry
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. -- Tony Snow
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. -- David Hockney
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question. -- Jamie Wyeth
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock. -- Jill Lepore
I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy. -- Robert Englund
As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination. -- Dan Colen
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette. -- James Horner
I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13. -- Nicki Minaj
My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' is so much fun.' That's what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies. -- Louis Leterrier
I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.' -- Dave Gahan
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper. -- Susan Minot
People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine. -- Grace Slick
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes. -- Robert Henri
My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them. -- James Nares
Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact. -- John Wooden
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. -- Ellen G. White
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. -- Peter Paul Rubens
I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness. -- Tom Hollander
The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back. -- Phil Ochs
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments. -- John McLaughlin
Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside. -- Mason Cooley
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. -- Man Ray
Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely. -- Spencer W. Kimball
I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes. -- Zachary Levi
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. -- Anna Halprin
There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes. -- Leigh Bardugo
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric S. Raymond
Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ... -- Edith Wharton
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done -- Pablo Picasso
Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them. -- Victoria Moran
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. -- Ray Bradbury
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great. -- Richard Schmid
Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle. -- Richard Schmid
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them. -- Jean Cocteau
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
I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art. -- T. Allen Lawson
Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us. -- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull. -- Anne Michaels
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing. -- James Elkins
Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us. -- Lauren Oliver
I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush. -- James Nares
Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong. -- J. Lynn

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