Paintbrush
noun
A tool with bristles used to apply paint onto a surface.
She dipped her paintbrush into the red paint and began to paint her masterpiece.
Often appears as...
- dip the paintbrush
- clean the paintbrush
noun
A plant native to North America with bright colored flowers.
The hills were covered in blooming paintbrushes, their vivid colors lighting up the terrain.
Often appears as...
- blooming paintbrush
- paintbrush flowers
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A tool with bristles used to apply paint onto a surface.
She dipped her paintbrush into the red paint and began to paint her masterpiece.
Often appears as...
- dip the paintbrush
- clean the paintbrush
noun
A plant native to North America with bright colored flowers.
The hills were covered in blooming paintbrushes, their vivid colors lighting up the terrain.
Often appears as...
- blooming paintbrush
- paintbrush flowers
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Tool
Used to describe the physical tool for painting; can imply creativity or artistry.
The artist's table was scattered with paintbrushes.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Varieties
Paintbrush bristles can be synthetic or natural; this may affect the artist's technique.
She preferred natural hair paintbrushes for watercolor paintings.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Types
Various types exist for different effects, like flat, round, or filbert paintbrushes.
To paint edges, he reached for his smallest round paintbrush.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Tool
Used to describe the physical tool for painting; can imply creativity or artistry.
The artist's table was scattered with paintbrushes.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Varieties
Paintbrush bristles can be synthetic or natural; this may affect the artist's technique.
She preferred natural hair paintbrushes for watercolor paintings.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Types
Various types exist for different effects, like flat, round, or filbert paintbrushes.
To paint edges, he reached for his smallest round paintbrush.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Tool
Used to describe the physical tool for painting; can imply creativity or artistry.
The artist's table was scattered with paintbrushes.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Varieties
Paintbrush bristles can be synthetic or natural; this may affect the artist's technique.
She preferred natural hair paintbrushes for watercolor paintings.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Types
Various types exist for different effects, like flat, round, or filbert paintbrushes.
To paint edges, he reached for his smallest round paintbrush.
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Video examples
Marla Spivak: Why bees...
In parts of the world where there are no bees, or where they plant varieties that are not attractive to bees, people are paid to do the business of pollination by hand. These people are moving pollen from flower to flower with a paintbrush. Now this business of hand pollination is actually not that uncommon.
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Your brain hallucinates...
The brain makes its best guess about what is and what is not part of its body. And there's a beautiful experiment in neuroscience to illustrate this. And unlike most neuroscience experiments, this is one you can do at home. All you need is one of these. And a couple of paintbrushes.
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Digging for humanity's...
when we then find something very important like the bones of a human ancestor we begin to excavate it extremely carefully and slowly using dental picks and fine paintbrushes and all the sediment is then put through these screens and where we go again
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Ariel Garten: Know...
our ideas, emotions and imaginations -- were, in fact, not bound by our brains and bodies. If you could think it, if you could discover it, you could bring it to life. To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush --
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Dan Dennett: Responding...
We heard about the atmosphere as a thin layer of varnish. Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on this planet. And we're the ones that hold the paintbrush. And how can we do that? The key to our domination of the planet is culture.
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Louise Leakey: Digging...
When we then find something very important, like the bones of a human ancestor, we begin to excavate it extremely carefully and slowly, using dental picks and fine paintbrushes. And all the sediment is then put through these screens,
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Paul MacCready: Nature...
have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. We now wield the paintbrush. And that's we're not very bright. We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?
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Distorting Madonna in...
rather than the virtue she's meant to represent. So even though it may be fun to think we can paint more realistically than Cimabuey or Duccio, we need to remember that they had different goals when picking up a paintbrush.
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Awesome Elephant Artist...
her best paintings la Punk an elephant from northern Thailand has shown extraordinary ability with a paintbrush her owners claims she is the most talented elephant artist in the world
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The Secret Life of...
before she worked with siddharth naropa showed the power of her paintbrush in a book called pillars of life it focused on trees in the gats
Video examples
Marla Spivak: Why bees...
In parts of the world where there are no bees, or where they plant varieties that are not attractive to bees, people are paid to do the business of pollination by hand. These people are moving pollen from flower to flower with a paintbrush. Now this business of hand pollination is actually not that uncommon.
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
The brain makes its best guess about what is and what is not part of its body. And there's a beautiful experiment in neuroscience to illustrate this. And unlike most neuroscience experiments, this is one you can do at home. All you need is one of these. And a couple of paintbrushes.
Video examples
Digging for humanity's...
when we then find something very important like the bones of a human ancestor we begin to excavate it extremely carefully and slowly using dental picks and fine paintbrushes and all the sediment is then put through these screens and where we go again
Video examples
Ariel Garten: Know...
our ideas, emotions and imaginations -- were, in fact, not bound by our brains and bodies. If you could think it, if you could discover it, you could bring it to life. To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush --
Video examples
Dan Dennett: Responding...
We heard about the atmosphere as a thin layer of varnish. Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on this planet. And we're the ones that hold the paintbrush. And how can we do that? The key to our domination of the planet is culture.
Video examples
Louise Leakey: Digging...
When we then find something very important, like the bones of a human ancestor, we begin to excavate it extremely carefully and slowly, using dental picks and fine paintbrushes. And all the sediment is then put through these screens,
Video examples
Paul MacCready: Nature...
have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. We now wield the paintbrush. And that's we're not very bright. We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?
Video examples
Distorting Madonna in...
rather than the virtue she's meant to represent. So even though it may be fun to think we can paint more realistically than Cimabuey or Duccio, we need to remember that they had different goals when picking up a paintbrush.
Video examples
Awesome Elephant Artist...
her best paintings la Punk an elephant from northern Thailand has shown extraordinary ability with a paintbrush her owners claims she is the most talented elephant artist in the world
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
before she worked with siddharth naropa showed the power of her paintbrush in a book called pillars of life it focused on trees in the gats
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Quote examples
Brandon Boyd
American Musician
To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
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Anna Deavere Smith
American Actress
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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Louise L. Hay
American Author
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
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Sharon Creech
American Writer
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.
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Peter Capaldi
Scottish Actor
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
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Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.
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Jimmy Breslin
American Entertainer
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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Leon Max
Russian Designer
I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
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Andrew Schulz
American Comedian
A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.
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Paul Kaye
English Comedian
I've tried, in periods of unemployment, to pick up a paintbrush.
Quote examples
Brandon Boyd
American Musician
To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
Quote examples
Anna Deavere Smith
American Actress
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
Quote examples
Louise L. Hay
American Author
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
Quote examples
Sharon Creech
American Writer
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.
Quote examples
Peter Capaldi
Scottish Actor
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
Quote examples
Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.
Quote examples
Jimmy Breslin
American Entertainer
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Quote examples
Leon Max
Russian Designer
I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
Quote examples
Andrew Schulz
American Comedian
A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.
Quote examples
Paul Kaye
English Comedian
I've tried, in periods of unemployment, to pick up a paintbrush.
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