Top 100 Quotes About Brushes
#1. You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.
Kate McGahan
#2. I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'
Dave Gahan
#3. Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the sky, silver for the jets, and brushes, and thinner.
Arundhati Roy
#4. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia Woolf
#5. Get over yourself," I mutter. "I'd be wet if any guy was rubbing up against me."
"Bull. Fucking. Shit." His thumb brushes my clit. I almost fall over.
"It's me. You want me.
Elle Kennedy
#6. But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#7. Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.
Victoria Moran
#8. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
Barbara Cooney
#9. I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.
I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.
Brenda Lochinger
#10. Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.
Michael Ondaatje
#11. Honey, no matter where you are, I'm with you.
When the breeze brushes your cheek, that's me.
When the stars sparkle and shine, that's me.
When the tulips bloom in the spring, that's me.
The little things.
She's there,
in the little things.
Lisa Schroeder
#12. Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
Bobby Flay
#13. Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
Robert Henri
#14. We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
Jamie Wyeth
#15. I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
T. Allen Lawson
#16. Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.
John Bonham
#17. She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don't come out.
Janet Frame
#18. You're like, on another level of breathtaking," he whispers. "You destroy me." He leans down, and brushes my lips with his. If I destroy him, then Cooper has mangled my psyche beyond recognition.
Diana Gardin
#19. Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
Man Ray
#20. He's still looking at me, searching my eyes like he's found something he can't bear to walk away from. His hands move to my face; his thumb brushes my cheek. His voice is so tender when he speaks.
"You will go on to greatness," he whispers. "I have never deserved you."
My heart.
Tahereh Mafi
#21. Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.
John Wooden
#22. I'm not going to give my love a set of flimsy fucking brushes, am I? Only long, hard, phallic shaped things will do for a girl of her appetites.
Kylie Scott
#23. They climbed back into the dish with brooms and scrubbing brushes and carefully swept it clean of what they referred to in a later paper as "white dielectric material," or what is known more commonly as bird shit.
Bill Bryson
#24. When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.
Susan Minot
#25. He brushes my cheek, wiping a tear.
"From the soul or whatever indefinable part of you makes you Annie. I like that part." The pad of his thumb circles my cheekbone, and I can't take my eyes off his.
Roxanne St. Claire
#26. They found Mr. Jesse in a boat?" I asked. "I'm wondering if maybe he just up and died. Maybe there ain't no murder. Like the fish weren't biting and he died of boredom. It happens. Boredom kills. I've had close brushes myself, during math.
Sheila Turnage
#27. But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece.
Gunter Grass
#28. I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.
Andrew Garfield
#29. My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' is so much fun.' That's what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.
Louis Leterrier
#30. The robin brushes me at dusk.
Our good bones fail. We leave no mark.
His voice, she writes, was clear and quiet.
I hear him singing in the dark.
("Edward Thomas' Daughter")
Alison Brackenbury
#31. To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
James Horner
#32. Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.
Richard Schmid
#33. Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
Mason Cooley
#34. At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
Joni Mitchell
#35. As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
Pablo Picasso
#36. Then she leans over, brushes her lips against his forehead, and turns off the lamp.
Kiersten White
#37. As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.
Cory Trepanier
#38. But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.
Terry Pratchett
#39. Aren't you worn out from running?" His lips follow a tear down my neck, and then he brushes my face with his hand. "I don't want to live without you another day. I'm begging you for another chance. Please.
Willow Aster
#40. Imagine Jesus today: He is leaning over, bending down close to someone who is hurt. He's listening. His eyes fill with tears as He hears that person's troubles. Then His hand gently brushes away a tear. He was hurt once too. He understands.
Max Lucado
#41. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.
Sebastian Barry
#42. Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.
Richard Schmid
#43. I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.
Tom Hollander
#44. The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
Anna Halprin
#45. I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln
#46. But ... but home should be more than that," I told him now. "Life ... it should be more than that" he brushes his lips across my cheek.
"It should be, but it's not for everyone. you know that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#47. I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.
James Nares
#49. But let us imagine RIGHT NOW that we find out about a world where there are artists who paint without brushes, make music without instruments, and write without pen and paper. The very thought makes me happy. That this world could be ours, right here and now.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#50. I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
Don Bluth
#51. As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.
Eric Balfour
#52. The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back.
Phil Ochs
#53. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock
#54. His hand brushes against my nylons and make me suck in a breath. The feeling of his fingers sliding along the fabric ... purr, purr. Please don't stop doing that.
C.M. Stunich
#55. There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.
Leigh Bardugo
#56. With or without horse slaughter, horse rescues need our help and support. That can involve financial donations, volunteering, or even donating items like brushes and blankets. Horse rescues operate with little money, so every little thing you can do to help goes a long way.
Bo Derek
#57. People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
Edwin Edwards
#58. Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no
more sense than comparing three painters because
they buy the same brand of brushes. - Jeffrey Steingarten
Grant Achatz
#59. Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry
#60. In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.
John McLaughlin
#61. With another curse, I'm out of the truck, slamming the door to piss Pigpen off. He follows as I go up the stairs, then brushes past me when I pause. He grins at me over his shoulder before opening the screen door.
Katie McGarry
#62. Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.
Lauren Oliver
#63. Generalized Inventory In this, you could include the basic items that are general to the RV and don't particularly fit into a separate category, but are essential to a successful trip" A - Awning and fittings, Aluminum foil, Air pumps. B - Books, Brushes and dustpan, Bedding,
Catherine Dale
#64. Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
#65. Most people who'd had three brushes with death - one involving a ghoul - would be scared into a very cooperative state. Tammy appeared to be channeling her inner Paris Hilton instead.
Jeaniene Frost
#66. The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow
#67. My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.
James Nares
#68. I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
Peter Paul Rubens
#69. People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.
Prem Rawat
#70. [W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.
Chuck Jones
#71. I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
Ray Bradbury
#72. Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.
Hans Fallada
#73. I would love if film doesn't disappear, if we can have film forever so we would have all these brushes, all these possibilities available.
Emmanuel Lubezki
#74. Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
#75. What women do in front of a mirror with few brushes and colors is, indeed, an art.
Uday Mukerji
#76. Then Ben's mouth descended again and her thoughts, as fickle as tiny fish, swam out of her head. Gentle brushes of his lips turned into more insistent strokes of his mouth. Sexually frustrated widow or not, there was little doubt the man could kiss her into a melted puddle of goo.
Tracey Alvarez
#77. Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?
Alethea Kontis
#78. He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry James
#79. Carl brushes a hand over his bald head. Flashing another charming smile at her,
Sarah Cohan
#80. Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...
Edith Wharton
#81. A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation ... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.
Walter J. Phillips
#82. She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.
Kate Chopin
#83. And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes
Margaret Widdemer
#84. The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was ... "Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly artist had crushed sapphires into his paints and then colored in the irises with the finest of brushes.
Nalini Singh
#85. I almost lost you."
"No, never. I would've fought. However long it took. I'd never give up until I was free. You're my life, Jonah. My family, my love, my best friend. Nothing, not even destiny, could keep me from you."
He leans forward and brushes his lips against mine.
"Okay.
J.B. Salsbury
#86. Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty. Kate.
It's the bargain I've made with myself. If I can't caress her body with my hands, I paint it with my brushes. Use my fingers to trace her lines.
Amy Plum
#87. Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#88. I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.
Nicki Minaj
#89. Ladies first." He places a hand on the ladder and gives it a pat.
As I step in front of him, my shoulder brushes against his chest.
Shannon Duffy
#90. I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.
Jane Swisshelm
#91. And before he leans in, he brushes the sugar from my lips so he can taste me.
Gillian Flynn
#92. When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.
Lorii Myers
#93. Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
Ellen G. White
#94. No one brushes my hair as well as the wind.
Alda Merini
#95. Morpheus leans close. His hair brushes my exposed shoulder, tickling and soft. "Shy little blossom," he whispers, his sweet breath cloaking me. "We're simply going to meld your pain away."
Meld ... that doesn't sound like something my dad would approve of.
A.G. Howard
#96. The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.
Glenn Dean
#97. Slowly, as I would with a wounded animal, my hand stretches out and brushes a wave of hair from his forehead. He freezes at my touch, but doesn't recoil. So I continue to gently smooth back his hair. It's the first time I have voluntarily touched him since the last arena.
Suzanne Collins
#98. Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
Spencer W. Kimball
#99. I know your soul. It's there in every note". He brushes my lips with his. "You can't fake that. You can't hide it
Angela Morrison
#100. Oh, Elizabeth." His lips quirk. "I'm so going to love taming that mouth of yours. Now, love" - he brushes my bottom lip with his thumb - "make it good.
Magda Alexander
