- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Brushes Quotes
From makeup kits to easels, one word covers a lot.
Brushes turn up in very different hands here - a charity ambassador applying liquid foundation with a multi-tasking brush, and a writer who picks up paintbrushes specifically when a poem stops Applying itself and frustration sets in.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
- Juice
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Mike Pence is the kind of guy that brushes his teeth and then drinks orange juice and thinks, 'Mmm.'
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End Result
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- May
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
- Old
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hardware Store
- |
- Nov 07, 2020