Poussin Quotes

#1. I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Cy Twombly

#2. Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.

Honore De Balzac

#3. I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.

Daniel S. Loeb

#4. I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine ... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed ... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin ...

Paul Cezanne

#5. I recommend that you should work actively ... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

Kazimir Malevich

#6. The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

Jacques-Louis David

#7. It is a true pleasure to live in a century in which such great events take place, provided that one can take shelter in some little corner and watch the play in comfort. (attributed to N. Poussin)

John Banville

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

Nicolas Poussin

#9. Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California ... Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

Deepak Chopra

#10. The key to happiness is independence.

Marty Rubin

#11. He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Agnes De Mille

#13. I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.

Miroslav Holub

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

Nicolas Poussin

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

Nicolas Poussin

#16. 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

#17. Leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

Anthony Doerr

#18. The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie ... and a bore, too!

Joanne Greenberg

#19. My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

Peter Krause

#20. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

#21. We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.

Bauvard

#22. The purpose of art is delectation.

Nicolas Poussin

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

Nicolas Poussin

#24. I wanted to meet the boy who documented suffering in such vivid color.

Colleen Hoover

#25. We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.

Nikki Rowe