— Peter Paul Rubens If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. — English Proverbs Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. — Benjamin B. Warfield Favoring Image Quotes Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. — B. B. Warfield 78 Live life as if everything ...
“White is poison to a picture, use it only in highlights.” -Peter Paul Rubens “Poets paint with words, painters speak with works.” -Annibale Carracci Creativity Quotes of The Neoclassic Era Neoclassicism involved decorative and visual art and was inspired directly by the classical art and c...
— Peter Paul Rubens 81 Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. — George Santayana 75 I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept ...
Heraclitus the Crying Philosopher, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-8, Prado (left); Fire from Barry Island Fire Festival, Photo by Andy Watkins (right). During Heraclitus’ time, Greek philosophers were trying to understand the universe, its true nature, and its underlying laws. Especially Greek philoso...
From letter proposing the young Einstein as a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Science. As quoted in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography (1956), 145. The letter was co-signed by Nernst, Rubens and Warburg. Science quotes on: | Against (332) | Albert Einstein (624) | Example...
with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion). —Gustave Courbet...