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Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

— Edgar Degas

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

— Howard Pyle

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and…

— Eugene Delacroix

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

— Thomas A. Edison

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

— Alan Watts

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is…

— W. H. Auden

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

— Robert Barry

“They’re all daubers, today’s painters; they’ve completely lost touch with the classical tradition, the subtle, noble craft of the old masters. They muddle along…

— Stefan Hertmans

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were…

— Robert Henri

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

— Kehinde Wiley

There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with…

— David Galenson