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Peter Paul Rubens Quotes

1577–1640 Belgium

Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition.

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I am by nature and inclination a peaceful man, the sworn enemy to disputes, lawsuits and quarrels both public and private.

I have neither time to live nor to write. I am therefore cheating my art by stealing a few evening hours to write this most inadequate and negligent reply to the courteous and elegant letters of yours.

We are exhausted [in Antwerp] and have endured so much that this war seems without purpose.. ..[and that it seemed] strange that Spain, which provides so little for the needs of this country .. ..has an abundance of means to wage an offensive war elsewhere.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Paul Rubens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.