Painting Is Nothing Quotes by Rembrandt

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Rembrandt has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
• Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
• Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.
• A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
• A painting is not made to be sniffed.
• I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain…
• A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.
• Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.
• Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me…
• An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.
• I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too
• Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

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