Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on…

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

— Damien Hirst

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that…

— LeRoy Neiman

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And…

— Joni Mitchell

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

— Mickie James

There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are…

— Yaacov Agam

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

— Aretha Franklin

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is.…

— Aleister Crowley

I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the…

— Jose Parla

Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to…

— John Green

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does…

— Loretta Lux

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner