Brushes Quotes - Page 10

• ... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Judgment, Scales, Delusion

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• What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

  Walter Scott

  Rainbow, Heaven, Hue

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.132

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• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Book, Winter

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• Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

  George Carlin

  Paint, Broads, Rhetoric

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• The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Poetry, Doe

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• O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Eye, Simplicity

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• Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

  Steve Coleman

  Light, Canvas, Film

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• Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Novelists, Fiction

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• When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Heroism, Mouths

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Insanity, Mind

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• The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Different, Layers

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

  Henry Boyd

  Business, Years, Mind

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• 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

  Thinking, Touching, Way

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Ordinary, Tongue

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• 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.

  Diego Rivera

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Artist

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• Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

  Maxine Kumin

  Dream, Lying, Air

  Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”

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• We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Mind, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe tomorrow is counting on me
  To learn my lessons today
  I'll start by taking a step at a time
  And stop throwing my blessings away
  I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off
  And take back some of the pride that I've lost
  'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground
  I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

  Bekka Bramlett

  Song, Fall, Pride

  Song: We All Fall Down

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• The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

  John Updike

  Football, Mother, Morning

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• Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Fans, Branded

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

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• We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Mistake, Hedgehogs, Said

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• Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

  William Blake

  Summer, Art, Animal

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge

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• Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

  John Marin

  Giving, Chance, Paint

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.

  Dave Stevens

  Spiritual, Jobs, Numbers

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• The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

  Igor Babailov

  Paint, Fluent

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