“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Variant: No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really.
Source: Fight Club

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American novelist, essayist 1962

Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian

On an elderly man in the front row who had fallen asleep.
A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me

“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

“My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.”

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist

The Modern Prince and other Writings, quoting a letter to his sister

“My idea of painting was that those yellow squares, being put on the wall as delineating a virtual square or rectangle, were involving the wall itself within the piece and, in this sense, compared to what is usually a work of art, a painting, this piece was somehow reversing the usual terms of the esthetic proposition. Usually, you see the painting and you ignore the wall. Here you had the wall coming through the painting — and the painting itself, the painted pieces, become a standpoint to make the wall appear.”

Robert Barry (1936) American artist

Robert Barry (1980) in: Alexander Alberro (2003). Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Alberro noted: "Barry has since discussed the way in which this painting accented the structural support..."

“It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 56
The Gay Science (1882)

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 59 : 'Mattie Ross,' refusing 'Rooster Cogburn's' offer of a drink of whiskey

“If they took away all my paints, I'd use pastels, if they took away my pastels, I'd use crayons, if they took away my crayons, I'd use a pencil. If they put me in a cell, and stripped me of everything, I'd spit on my finger and draw on the wall.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

The original quote attributed to Picasso in 1951 quotes him as saying that 'even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit' (see above). This expansion appears to derive from an interview given by actor Dustin Hoffman to the L.A. Times in 2001.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/04/entertainment/ca-32985
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“Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Pt. II, ch. 2, pg 123
The Quiet American (1955)

“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”

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