Brushes Quotes - Page 18

• You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

  Wilferd Peterson

  White, Hair, Hands

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• They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams.

  James Salter

  Real, Luxury, Teeth

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• I've learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why you would want to look any horse the mouth considering how infrequently they brush is beyond me.

  Robert Mankoff

  Horse, Looks, Mouths

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  Tom Hollander

  Sadness, Unhappy, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Curly Hair, Looks, Dry

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• The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

  Yang Wanli

  Men, Doe, Paper

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• At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.

  Brock Lesnar

  Morning, Thinking, Mirrors

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• When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

  Kenny Chesney

  Dust, Trying, Wire

  "Spiritual side of Kenny Chesney". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2013.

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• When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This is the state of the art brush from Winsor-Newton." Yeah, but the state of the art sucks rubber donkey lungs.

  Mike Royer

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Want Something

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• Somehow you've been voted something for a magazine, and it's a complete mystery to me. I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning, you know. And it's weird. And it's unpleasant at times.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Mean, Teeth

  "Johnny Depp dishes Rango". www.sheknows.com. March 01, 2011.

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• After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Summer, School, Self Confidence

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.

  Howard Dean

  Broads, Attacking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I personally prefer working digitally because it allows me to work quickly and cleanly. I don't have to buy paint or brushes or canvases, I don't have to wait for paintings to dry before sending them to clients, I don't have to photograph or scan my final work, and I can make edits immediately and easily.

  Julie Dillon

  Waiting, Clients, Finals

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Art, Etc, Portraits

  "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

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• One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing makeup ... I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.

  Blake Lively

  Makeup, Teeth, Perfume

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• A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

  Timothy Murphy

  Cameras, Borders, Movement

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• Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Needs, Stones, Way

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• I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

  Damon Hill

  Artist, Track, Car

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• What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

  Jane Fonda

  Soul, Musical, Acting

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

  Dawn French

  Moss, Would Be, Alive

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• To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally different from your own. That used to be inevitable. If that goes away because everything's so convenient, everything's brought to you, well, then there goes one of my favorite parts of life, and something that I've gone out of my way to court.

  Miranda July

  Eye, Past, Reality

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Laughter, Thinking, Medicine

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• If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."

  Jane Seymour

  Vocabulary, Want Something, People

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• Messi and Neymar will create beauty - just like Picasso's paint brush. I still believe Messi is the best in the world. He has a special magic and is more of a team player than Cristiano. Never before has there been such a difference between the King and the next.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Kings, Team, Believe

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