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But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones. -- E. M. Forster
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement. -- William Blake
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. -- Robert Hughes
If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush. -- Dawn French
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art. -- Jenny Saville
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. -- Dawn French
I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action. -- Ginger Rogers
I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous! -- Willem de Kooning
For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration. -- William Benton Clulow
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch. -- Kazimir Malevich
Their charms, Sir John, I shall discover, I have no doubt, when dinner's over At present, if to judge I'm able, The finest works are on the table I should prefer the cook just now, To Rubens or to Gerrard Dow -- William Combe
Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe -- Joe King
I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through. -- Ruben Studdard
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Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them. -- Jamie Foxx
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply. -- William Morris Hunt
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, 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

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