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«Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.»
«Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.»
«Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.»
«It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds»
«Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.»
Author: Suzanne Massie | About: Evil | Keywords: acquiescence, brushing
«There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.»
«As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done»
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
«I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.»
«Brushing with hasty steps the dews away / To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: brushing, dews, hasty, upland

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