Brushes Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Our art will probably be accused of tormented and decadent cerebralism. But we shall merely answer that we are, on the contrary, the primitives…

— Umberto Boccioni (Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto

“Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of a flamboyant…

— Jacques Vache

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

— George Henry Lewes

Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health…

— Robert Aris Willmott

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a…

— Aubrey Beardsley

And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I…

— Haruki Murakami

“But we must come to realise that every word is perfect, including those we scratch out. As my pen moves across this page the…

— Luke Rhinehart

“Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught…

— Thomas Cole

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are…

— Joseph Priestley

“we are nothing but pencil in the hands of the creator.”

— mariam

“When your mind is free of the incessant chatter from our inner critics, we are better able to attend to being our most authentic…

— Laurie J. Beck

“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness to failures…

— Sarah Lewis