quotes about Brushes
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
-- Andre Breton -
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
-- Angela CarterSource : Source: www.rogerebert.com
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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 for very few things in my life.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
-- Berthe MorisotSource : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.219, Univ of California Press
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After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.
-- Bobbi Brown -
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
-- Constantine Manos -
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I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.
-- Courteney Cox -
I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
-- David Copperfield -
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
-- Edwin EdwardsSource : "The RentBoy Raid: This Video Will Change The Way You Think About Sex Work" by Jake Jaxson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2015.
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With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.
-- Gerhard Richter -
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I will preach with my brush.
-- Henry Ossawa TannerSource : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.
-- Hilma af Klint -
I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.
-- Holland Roden -
The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.
-- Igor Babailov -
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No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on
-- J. ColeSource : Song: Crooked Smile, Album: Born Sinner, 2013
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My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.
-- James Nares -
Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
-- Jennifer Armintrout -
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
-- Jil Sander -
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How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all randomâ€.
-- John GuareSource : John Guare (2016). “Six Degrees of Separation: A Play”, p.116, Vintage
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
-- John LydonSource : "Quietus Exclusive: John Lydon Wants To Re-record Dark Side Of The Moon" by John Doran, thequietus.com. February 17, 2010.
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Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
-- John Ortberg -
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My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
-- Karel AppelSource : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
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I've learned to brush off many things.
-- Katrina BowdenSource : "Face Time | Katrina Bowden". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. August 9, 2011.
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I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.
-- Lena Dunham -
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
-- Maira Kalman -
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Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
-- Michael K. Williams -
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
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It's with my brush that I make love.
-- Pierre-Auguste RenoirSource : Quoted in Albert Andre, Renoir (1919). Often quoted as "I paint with my prick."
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Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
-- Raphael Soyer -
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Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?
-- Robert Browning -
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
-- Robert Motherwell -
On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something…
-- Scott Hastie -
You can't beat everyone up all the time with the same brush
-- Steve Claridge -
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I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.
-- Sydney Banks -
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
-- Theodore Gericault -
Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.
-- Toni Onley -
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
-- Virginia Woolf -
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
-- Willem de KooningSource : Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.17, The Museum of Modern Art
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Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
-- Conan O'Brien -
I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.
-- Gene Black -
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Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.
-- Chris Johnson -
I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.
-- Tom HollanderSource : Source: collider.com