Nicolas Poussin Quotes

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

Nicolas Poussin

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • City
  • Weird
  • Sea

• Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Faith

• It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Today
  • Political

• New cell phones are my weakness.

  

  Duncan D. Hunter

• That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
  • Failure

• When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Mother
  • House
  • Door

• 'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Giving
  • Moral
  • Police

• I expected results.

  

  Bernard Ebbers

• But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Experience
  • Journey
  • Sad

• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • Important
  • Done
  • She

• My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Character
  • Mom

• It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

  

  Liu Wen
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians.

  

  Jimmy Carter

• Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity?

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Done
  • May
  • Truth

• Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Done
  • Home
  • She

• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

  

  Nicolas Poussin
  • Eyes
  • Painting
  • Color