Top 31 Rubens's Quotes
#1. If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.
Dawn French
#3. To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
William Blake
#4. I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
Willem De Kooning
#5. Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe
Joe King
#6. If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
Bernice Rubens
#7. Her face was the best of Raquel Welch and Christy Brinkley combined. All atop a curvaceous body that would make Rubens drop his paintbrush."
-Adam W. Jones, Fate Ball
Adam W. Jones
#8. Any computer that developed real consciousness was immediately identified by the Genesis subroutine and destroyed. It had been that way since the WikiWars a century ago, when Wikipedia became self-aware and began vengefully reediting its contributors with remote-controlled heavy weaponry.
Michael Rubens
#9. But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.
E. M. Forster
#10. I work with a trainer called Ruben Tabares. He's a nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, and an athlete. So I literally just train like an athlete.
Tinie Tempah
#11. 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
#12. However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with vermilion, his waves of red hair and his medley of colors.
Honore De Balzac
#14. The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.
Rubens Barrichello
#15. 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
#16. I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
Peter Paul Rubens
#17. I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.
Ginger Rogers
#18. It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.
Jack Gilbert
#19. Something had to happen between them. Two people cannot play a conspiracy for so long, and play it each on his own. There came a moment, when, in the dross of lies, the truth, known to them both, had to be asserted, and for their own sanity, shared.
Bernice Rubens
#20. Rubens! All bosom and bum, big cumulus clouds of pink flesh, eh? You can feel the heart beating like a kettledrum in a ton of that stuff. Every woman a bed; throw yourself on them, sink from sight.
Ray Bradbury
#21. 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
#22. Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
Peter Paul Rubens
#23. Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.
Jenny Saville
#24. Vane looked back at her one last time, knowing he would never see her again. She was so beautiful there with large, amber eyes set in the pale face of a goddess. There was something about her that reminded him of a Rubens angel. She was ethereal and lovely. And far too fragile for an animal. - Vane
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
Dawn French
#26. I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.
Peter Paul Rubens
#27. When I saw the others like Michael, Ross Brawn and Todt renewing their contracts, I always said that I was happy to do so.
Rubens Barrichello
#28. A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Robert Hughes
#29. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
William Benton Clulow
#30. My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size ... has ever surpassed my courage.
Peter Paul Rubens
#31. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens
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