Peter Rubens Quotes

#1. My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

Peter Paul Rubens

#2. If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

Pat Sajak

#3. You ought to dare great things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Nalini Singh

#5. Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

Peter Paul Rubens

#6. White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Peter Paul Rubens

#7. I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Peter Paul Rubens

#8. Don't make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!

Michelle Word Hollis

#9. Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Hans Christian Andersen

#10. My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size ... has ever surpassed my courage.

Peter Paul Rubens

#11. It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

Jack Gilbert

#12. Hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate

Charles Dickens

#13. As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.

Peter Paul Rubens

#14. Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Peter Paul Rubens

#15. I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

Sandra Cisneros

#16. I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

Peter Paul Rubens

#17. Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

Richard Preston