Brushes Quotes - Page 19

• Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

  T.C. Boyle

  Dog, Teeth, Why Not

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

  Walt Disney

  Expression, Symphony, Orchestra

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• There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Eye, Exercise, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Gay

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• In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

  Mike Todd, Jr.

  Circles, Painting, Problem

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• Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.

  David Perlmutter

  Loss, Vegetables, Practice

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Impossible, Easier, Threat

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

  Courteney Cox

  Iron, Use, Picks

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• If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Morning, Drama, Independent

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

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• I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Oil, Black, Together

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• Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn't be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii!

  Jay Leno

  Home, Holiday, Cutting

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• I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

  Chris Martin

  Smart, Teeth, Goes On

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• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  Maira Kalman

  Desks, Limes, Pencil Sharpeners

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• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  Maira Kalman

  Ink, Etching, World

  "Maira Kalman's show at Jewish Museum". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2010.

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• You can't beat everyone up all the time with the same brush

  Steve Claridge

  Beats

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• Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.

  John Wooden

  Enthusiasm, Contact

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Ignorance, Mirrors

  "Public Enemies - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What joy when the insouciant
  armadillo glances at us and doesn't
  quicken his trotting
  across the track into the palm brush.
  What is this joy? That no animal
  falters, but knows what it must do?

  Denise Levertov

  Animal, Track, Joy

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dog, Distance, Flower

  "The Analytical Language of JohnWilkins" (1942) (translation by Ruth L. C. Simms)

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• I brush my hair,
  waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
  for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
  and were screwed together. They will knit.
  And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
  I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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