Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. — Berthe Morisot
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. — Joan Miro
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. — Jackson Pollock
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
You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist. — Heidi Baker
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore
I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh. — Peter Paul Rubens
For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces. — Yusaku Maezawa
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Pablo Picasso
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. — Grandma Moses
Paintbrush Quotes
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. — Daniel Dennett
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
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation. — Barbara Johnson
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
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
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
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? — Virginia Woolf
A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word "Photoshop", like it's cheating or easy or something. I say bollocks to that - for me, it's my tool, my paintbrush if you like, and lets me create my own visual language. — Idris Khan
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
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
Brushes Quotes
I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing. — Gucci Mane
No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on — J. Cole
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece. — Kai Greene
Little strokes, fell great oaks.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. — Dorothy Parker
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it. — Claude Monet
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people. — El Lissitzky
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape. — Jenny Saville
[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. — Annie Oakley
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. — Peter Paul Rubens
Different Strokes Quotes
Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis. — Big Daddy Kane
Different strokes, for different folks. — Sly Stone
A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking. — Temple Grandin
Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. — Henry Beard
The most important thing is to find your own path - to be true to yourself. I'm a happily married gay man, but I don't advocate marriage for everybody. Different strokes for different folks. — Ivan Heng
We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks. — Madeleine Albright
It was a stroke of luck when I worked in 'Agneepath.' It was a great role, something different for me. — Rishi Kapoor
"I would be prosecuted and imprisoned if I did what you did." Again, different strokes for the Clintons, look what happened they get a pass, they get to collect all the paychecks and get all the glory, and get the cash while the rest of the people are suffering or dying in Benghazi. — Kimberly Guilfoyle
After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part. — Philippa Perry
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms. — Patricia Lee Gauch
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke. — Hilma af Klint
We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. — Richard M. Nixon
My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image. — Karel Appel
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. — John F. Kennedy
To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult — Madonna Ciccone
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image. — Max Lucado
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought. — Antoni Tapies
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it. — Matthew Parris
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare
To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world. — Alan Cohen
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain. — Justin Cronin
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. — Raphael Soyer
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life-your life-a masterpiece. — Wilferd Peterson
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail. — Dorianne Laux
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
I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image - choosing not only the right words but down to the right number of lines. I remember being in Maine once at Colby College with Alex Katz. It houses hundreds of his works. There was a painting of just one seagull against a blue sky. I was admiring it and Alex said, "45 brush strokes exactly." — David Salle
Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes. — Jeffrey Lewis
Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another. — Alex Abreu
It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run. — James Nares
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things. — Antoni Tapies
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke. — Robert Henri
The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece. — Wilferd Peterson
If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again. — Janice Tanton
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express — Julia Margaret Cameron
Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so far, this gesture seems natural and comforting. I don't want him to stop and he doesn't. He's still stroking my hair when I fall asleep. — Suzanne Collins
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