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
Exciting Brushes quotations
No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core.
If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.
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.
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?
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.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
[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.
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
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.
Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second.
Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man.
Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
People say I've had brushes with the law.
That's not true! I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors!
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.
People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.
The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.
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.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
I will preach with my brush.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
Don’t brush anything under the rug.
Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.
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.
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.
Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist.
I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind.
Racing 'gainst myself but I'm a couple steps behind.
Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.