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«Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.»
«Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.»
«It came from nowhere, blazed up like a brush fire, pulled us together at the bottom of the Depression, held us together through a war, galloped up to the brink of television and fell over dead.»
«It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds»
«Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.»
«If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.»
«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
«JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.»
«I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.»
«A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: brush, in the head