Brushstrokes Painting Quotes & Sayings

Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access. — Banksy

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. — Steve Wynn

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. — Aldous Huxley

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. — Emmanuel Jal

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. — Nikolai Gogol

They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas ...
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole. — Victoria Hislop

PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year. — Napoleon Hill

The answer was obvious: the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. — Felix J. Palma

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace. — Scipio Africanus

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information. — Abbie Hoffman

pastors throughout the countryside around Rome had reminded their parishioners that Jesus was a Jew in order to coax them into opening their doors. Catholic guilt was a powerful tool, — Amy Harmon

Your choices, your words, and every move you make are permanent. Life is lived in indelible ink, boy. Wake up. You're making little bitty brushstrokes every minute you walk around on this earth. And with those tiny brushstrokes, you are creating the painting that your life will ultimately become - a masterpiece or a disaster. — Andy Andrews

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change. — Julie Newmar

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai. — Tony Jaa

Some things are hurrying into existence and others are hurrying out of it and of that which is coming into existence, part is already extinguished. In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of things which hurry on by on which a man would set a high price. It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by but has already passed out of sight. — Marcus Aurelius

The passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19 — Felix J. Palma

She sniffled. "Does he know?"
"Not a clue," Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved. — Jez Morrow

The feminism of equality, of toughness, of anti-discrimination, has been overwhelmed by one of victimhood and demands for special treatment....At a certain point, when we demand an equal ratio of men to women in certain fields, what we're criticizing is not "the system," but the choices that women themselves are making.....let's keep our eye on the question of equal opportunity and stop obsessing about equal outcomes, lest we find ourselves trying to cure society, not of sexism, but of free choice. — Elizabeth Wasserman

Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White — Ray White

I rarely feel that any of my paintings ever make it to a finishing point. There's always something else I want to add to them, like a few more brushstrokes or another color. But there comes a point with every painting when I just have to stop and accept it for what it is. — Colleen Hoover

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts. — Elizabeth Peyton

No matter what you think, no matter what you say, I will love you always. — Jayson Engay