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Nicolas Poussin Quotes

1594–1665 France

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors.

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Reason, not appetite, should control the judgment.

I never feel myself so stimulated to be painstaking as after I have seen a beautiful object.

To judge well is very difficult. To do so requires both theory and practice.

They do not realize that it is contrary to order and nature to place very large and massive things in high places or to make very delicate or weak bodies carry heavy weights.

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