If a painter were offered a brush that would make him a better painter, it seems to me that he would want to use it in all his paintings, wouldn't he?

如果一个画家弄了一杆能让他下笔犹如神的画笔，在我看来，他画啥画都想用的，不是吗？

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The painter swept a brush over his canvas.

画家的画笔在画布上飞掠。

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A painter can spend considerable time selecting the appropriate brush tips and sizes.

画家往往花费相当长的时间来选择形状和大小合适的画笔。

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By contrast, virtually every work in "The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth Century China" warrants its own essay on the composition's literary or political allusions, the lineage of its brushwork, and the personal and historical context in which the painter dipped brush into ink.

WSJ: Paths Easy and Daunting | Ming Masterpieces | Artful Recluse | Lacma | Asia Society | By Lee Lawrence

He prefers big open spaces, uses the jabbing tone of his trumpet more like a sculptor's knife than a painter's brush, slashing across the canvas of silence.

WSJ: The Jazz Scene: Intercontinental Artistic Missions

White can be the paper on which he paints or any number of delicate washes in which we almost feel the painter making certain that the barest amount of pigment will mix with water on his brush.

WSJ: Fluid, Evanescent Images | John Singer Sargent Watercolors | Brooklyn Museum | By Tom L. Freudenheim