Brush Quotes

443 quotes by 374 authors

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage… — Steve Kroft
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. — Rabindranath Tagore
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? — Robert Browning
My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my… — Michelangelo
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I never draw except with brush and paint... — Claude Monet
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and… — Andrew Wyeth
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt… — Harry Kemp
I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie. — Sarah Jessica Parker
The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish… — Morris Graves
The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still… — Jude Law
With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen.… — Gerhard Richter
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my… — Aisha Tyler
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like… — Jenny Saville
Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a… — Joan Miro
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before… — Dean Mitchell
Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide… — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

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