Nicolas Poussin Quotes

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

Nicolas Poussin

#2. The purpose of art is delectation.

Nicolas Poussin

#3. Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

Ray Bradbury

#4. Desire and happiness cannot live together.

Epictetus

#5. How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the name. In the word, the earth breaks silence.

John O'Donohue

#6. A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

Cass Sunstein

#7. Girls are important: Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.

Jill Lepore

#8. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

Gabriel Zaid

#9. 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

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

Nicolas Poussin

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

Nicolas Poussin

#12. The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

Danny Pino

#13. What's up with this sudden obsession with Jakes physique? He shoots me a look that asks: Is he measuring me for a coffin?

Huntley Fitzpatrick

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

Nicolas Poussin