Brushes Quotes · Page 3

The mind paints before the brush.

— James Ellis

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

— Jay-Z

Ay Dad, brush my hair one time. Hey pops! Come brush my hair.

— Adrien Broner

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

— David Copperfield

Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

— John Marin

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

— Lena Dunham

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

— Anonymous

She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

— Cassandra Clare

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

— Abbey Lincoln

Makeup is my world, and I know that a little things . . . the right technique, colour or brush . . . can make all the difference.

— Rae Morris

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

— Andre Breton

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I…

— Steve Prefontaine

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

— Ann Jillian

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the…

— Rumi

I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to…

— Laini Taylor

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case…

— Jill Lepore

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic…

— Antoni Tapies

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with…

— Barack Obama

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of…

— John French Sloan

If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting…

— Bruce Campbell

My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick…

— Robert Plant

If you closed your eyes during that [Donald Trump] conference and you didn't pay attention to who was saying those words, it…

— Jose Diaz-Balart

I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are…

— Kirk Douglas

I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river…

— Aldo Leopold

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me.…

— Dave Gahan

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture…

— John French Sloan

Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth…

— Ian Somerhalder

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.…

— Cy Twombly

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out…

— Kazimir Malevich

There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or…

— Wright Morris

When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost…

— Richard Shepard

I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as…

— Michael Gungor

Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I…

— Jennifer Weiner

It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says…

— Noam Chomsky

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard…

— Cassandra Clare

For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug…

— Ellen Willis