Brushes

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

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I believe this.

I believe it is true of anything we do or create - art, research, stories, music, children, pets, interior decorating. Whatever we help to create, we put ourselves into that - our biases and beliefs, our joys and sorrows, our truths - explicit or hidden.

I also prefer the idea of dipping the brush into the soul rather than the heart. An artist who dips his brush into his heart is going to have some sort of myocardial infarction.