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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.»
«The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.»
«It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds»
«The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.»
«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.»
«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.»