Peter Paul Rubens famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
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My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
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I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.
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Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
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My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings
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White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.
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Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
-- Peter Paul Rubens
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
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We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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