Brushes Quotes - Page 5

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

William Morris Hunt

Blue, Eyelashes, Long

William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

Conan O'Brien

Government, Two, Funny Drinking

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To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

Alan Cohen

Heart, Mind, World

Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

David Copperfield

Teeth, Toothbrushes, Shows

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A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Men, Doors, Long

"Window Dictatorship and Window Rights". www.hundertwasser.at. 1990.

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Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Mary Heilmann

Waves Breaking, Lines, Painting

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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above
[so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.

Jackson Pollock

Moving, Use, Ease

Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

Heidi Klum

Journey, Mirrors, Here And There

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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Jane Austen

Two, Ivory, Littles

Letter to J. Edward Austen, 16 Dec. 1816

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And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

Spencer W. Kimball

Father, Golf, Winning

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Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Sports, Pride, Fire

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.

Robert M. Hensel

Inspirational, Kindness, Faces

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He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

Dean Koontz

Breathing, Silence, Bird

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You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

Joseph P. Allen

Ocean, Fire, Clouds

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Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.

J. Lynn

Two, People, Soul

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If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

John Templeton

Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here and there and scattering my emotional and intellectual possessions. There was no point in pretending that I had not fallen, for when we are stretched out in the dirt we must pick ourselves up and brush off our clothes. This then, in a sense, is what I did, reviewing my considered opinions on marriage, constancy, man's nature, and the importance of love. When I had picked up my possessions and repaired my appearance, I fell asleep.

John Cheever

Love, Fall, Men

John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

Willa Cather

Love, Sweet, Children

Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

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The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Thomas Eakins

Powerful, Tools, Construction

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Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Arshile Gorky

Dream, Artist, Form

Arshile Gorky (2005). “Նամակներ”

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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

Dag Hammarskjold

Creativity, Color, Space

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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

Ted Dekker

Dark, Light, Evil

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You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

Sarah McLachlan

Friendship, Pick Me Up, Needs

Song: Push

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

Charles Baudelaire

Wind, Insanity, Mind

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