Brushstroke Quotes

#1. When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Each brushstroke is a decision.

Robert Motherwell

#3. I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open as the paint pulls away, thins and dries.

Chris Raschka

#4. I want constructive energy generated by every brushstroke and between every line.

Siren Waroe

#5. If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

Rory Kinnear

#6. She continued to look out the window for a moment, her humanity and thoughtfulness tucked away inside a tight frown, an honest brushstroke in a boring painting.

Joseph Fink

#7. Clothes and accessories were a person's creativity; how someone looked was always a free decision, like a brushstroke on a painting.

Hanif Kureishi

#8. The moreness of him was beginning to show. The way ruins were excavated by an archaeologist. Brushstroke by brushstroke. Bit by bit.

Ryan Graudin

#9. And carefully ... tenderly ... taking my time with every brushstroke, I sketch the curve of her neck, apply the crimson of her lips, form her face into a two-dimensional tribute to her beauty.

Amy Plum

#10. I was an afterthought, five thousand years later. A mistake, because Ciana was gone. I was the dissonant note on the end of a masterpiece symphony. I was the brushstroke that ruined the painting.

Jodi Meadows

#11. Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

Thomas Kinkade

#12. Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts.

Toni Sorenson

#13. I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.

Gary Johnson

#15. A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.

Mel Brooks

#16. Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.

Andrew McAleer

#17. Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

Abbie Cornish

#18. Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties.

Gary Johnson

#19. I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

Victoria Osteen

#20. Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.

Rene Huyghe

#21. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

Regina Brett

#22. Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

Baz Luhrmann

#23. Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

James Russell Lowell

#24. God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

Donald Miller

#25. I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Mike Royko

#26. A open pot can't hide, a inch-opened door can't hide much, but an open man is hiding the universe.
she says something else, but i cannot remember the rest.

Robert Jordan

#27. There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

Bryant McGill

#28. Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.

Jonathan Hull

#29. -We'll need to go back soon. We won't trouble you for long.-

-Never have I desired trouble more.-

Lisa McMann

#30. It'll be a day in which you tell us how to make Pixar better," John said. "We'll do no work that day. No visitors will be allowed. Everyone must attend.

Ed Catmull

#31. American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

#32. My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.

Jarvis Cocker