Brush Quotes

443 quotes by 398 authors

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that… — Robert Henri
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a… — Robert Henri
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist… — Diego Rivera
Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die… — Maxine Kumin
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We… — William Butler Yeats
The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and… — John Updike
Our fans have been branded with the same brush — Ron Atkinson
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy
Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like… — William Blake
Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance. — John Marin
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks… — Dave Stevens
The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush. — Igor Babailov
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to… — Kenneth Patchen
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all randomâ€. — John Guare
The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form… — Eugen Herrigel
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful… — Ann Voskamp
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… — Joseph Wambaugh
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In… — Anne Carson
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… — Alan Cohen
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already… — El Lissitzky

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