Brushes Quotes - Page 2

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

Graham Hill

Art, Track, Car

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

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And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

Norman McLaren

Philosophy, Simple, Delight

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In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

Lisa Snowdon

Clean Underwear, Hands, Ipods

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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.

Denise Richards

Eyebrows, Curls, Lips

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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true! I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors!

Edwin Edwards

Law, People, Overzealous

"The RentBoy Raid: This Video Will Change The Way You Think About Sex Work" by Jake Jaxson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2015.

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I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

Susan Boyle

Baby, Yelling, Musical

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Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

Frank Bruno

Sports, Athlete, Knives

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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Tony Snow

Peace, Two, Oil

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If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Joseph Wambaugh

Home, Fire, Years

Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Berthe Morisot

Inspiring, Art, Real

Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.219, Univ of California Press

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When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Fall, Artist, Two

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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

Christopher Fry

Wings, Understanding, May

Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.133, Oberon Books

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

Jackson Pollock

Glasses, Knives, Broken

Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

John Lydon

Daft

"Quietus Exclusive: John Lydon Wants To Re-record Dark Side Of The Moon" by John Doran, thequietus.com. February 17, 2010.

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Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Eye, Self, Looks

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I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

Lena Dunham

Hair

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Louise Erdrich

Love, Life, Strength

"Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

Mario Andretti

Believe, Able, Instinct

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

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To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

Madonna Ciccone

Littles, Painting, Process

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Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

Eric Carle

Stars, Children, Artist

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My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

Karel Appel

Ends, Brush Strokes, Strokes

"Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.

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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

Joan Miro

Simple, Drawing, Freedom And Happiness

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All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

Claude Monet

Looks, Bears, Witness

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