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.


In a letter to Pierre Dupuy, Sept. / Oct. 1627; as quoted by Simon Schrama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 248 - Quotes of Rubens, 1625 - 1640

Peter Paul Rubens Quotes

We are exhausted [in Antwerp] and have endured so much that this war seems without purpose......[and that it seemed] strange that Spain, which...

We are exhausted [in Antwerp] and have endured so much that this war seems without purpose......[and that it seemed] strange that Spain, which...

We are exhausted [in Antwerp] and have endured so much that this war seems without purpose......[and that it seemed] strange that Spain, which...

We are exhausted [in Antwerp] and have endured so much that this war seems without purpose......[and that it seemed] strange that Spain, which...