I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

— Carl Andre

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

— Frederick Sommer

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as…

— Marcel Proust

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

— John Bayley

I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob,…

— Rob Gronkowski

“Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I…

— Robert Lowell

“He's often wished that he could capture the full essence of each woman's laugh on canvas, but he settles instead, on watching how, when…

— Adam Gallari

Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied…

— Ally Carter

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

— John Lithgow

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

— Peter Greenaway

“I’ve gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to…

— Susanna Kaysen