Rembrandt Quotes: top 48 famous quotes about Rembrandt

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Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. — Rembrandt

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat. — Alberto Giacometti

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. — Victor Hugo

Barrow, who evidently had never seen an atlas, felt superior to Descartes, Rembrandt, and Beethoven. — Ken Follett

A painting is not made to be sniffed. — Rembrandt

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures. — Mordicai Gerstein

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory. — Eric Weiner

The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso — Aretha Franklin

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it. — Dave Barry

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go. — Pat Ament

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. — Edvard Munch

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit. — Rembrandt

Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. — Vladimir Nabokov

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt. — Damien Hirst

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men. — Rembrandt

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt. — Francisco Goya

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too — Rembrandt

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth. — Rembrandt

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. — Rembrandt

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. — Vincent Van Gogh

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you. — Irving Stone

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art. — Rembrandt

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. — Rembrandt

My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date. — Jack Levine

Choose only one master - Nature. — Rembrandt

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. — Rembrandt

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt. — Ronnie Wood

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as Rembrandt or anyone else. — Zig Ziglar

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. — Rembrandt

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope

If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt. — David Markson

Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me. — Marc Chagall

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. — Dick Bruna

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. — Adam Carolla

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing ... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. — Peter Schjeldahl

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt ... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch. — Matei Calinescu

An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A — Simon Schama

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god. — Rembrandt

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. — Rembrandt