Top 6 Nicolas Poussin Quotes

#1. Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

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#2. The purpose of art is delectation.

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#3. The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

Nicolas Poussin

#4. Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Nicolas Poussin

#5. Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Nicolas Poussin

#6. We have nothing that is really our own; we hold everything as a loan.

Nicolas Poussin

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