Poussin's Quotes

#1. 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

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

Nicolas Poussin

#3. The purpose of art is delectation.

Nicolas Poussin

#4. When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.

Craig Groeschel

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

Cy Twombly

#6. As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

Harold Ford Jr.

#7. We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. 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

#9. No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Liya Kebede

#10. Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile

Oscar Wilde

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Nicolas Poussin

#16. 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

#17. Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

Richard Whately

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

Nicolas Poussin

#19. You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. In many places an administrative approach prevails over a pastoral approach, as does a concentration on administering the sacraments apart from other forms of evangelization.

Pope Francis

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

Nicolas Poussin