I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a…

“Man is the second.”

— Victor Hugo

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

— Francisco Goya

If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to…

— Ray Floyd

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 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

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were…

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Morton Feldman

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

— Matei Calinescu

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there…

— Deepak Chopra

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

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

— Damien Hirst

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up…

— Paul Smith

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew…

— David Cobley

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

— Jack Kerouac