Quotes About Brush Strokes

#1. Try finger painting instead of such careful brush strokes.

A.M. Leibowitz

#2. Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

Heidi W. Durrow

#3. Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song.

Walter Isaacson

#4. They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Antoni Tapies

#5. Tree limbs boasted fresh baby buds and smiled at the brush strokes spread across the sky.

Abby Slovin

#6. Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Jeffrey Lewis

#7. Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

Donald Judd

#8. The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

Richard M. Nixon

#9. My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

Karel Appel

#10. How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random.

John Guare

#11. In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

Jack Davenport

#12. Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

Alex Abreu

#13. All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

Edward Bond

#14. Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

Constantine Manos

#15. The power of beauty
Lies within our soul
And how we choose
To see everything
It is not found from
The strokes of a make-up brush
Nor the acceptance from others

Apple Blossom

#16. Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead?

Juvenal

#17. The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

Jean Wilson

#18. The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

Wilferd Peterson

#19. I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.

Meg Cabot

#20. In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

Donald Bren

#21. There's a hurried intensity in the strokes
you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush. It's as if he knew there wasn't much time left. And yet, there's a serenity in his face, a sense of something that's survived its own ruin.

Nicole Krauss

#22. If I wasn't a musician ... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

Ben Howard