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.
Joni Mitchell

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry

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.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
Don Bluth

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
Edwin W. Edwards

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow