Rembrandt Quotes
49 quotes by 47 authors
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and…
— Walter Bagehot
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You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.
— Stefan Sagmeister
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
— Bob Hope
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are…
— Jack Kerouac
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!
— Max Liebermann
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You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only…
— George N. Atiyeh
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There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very,…
— Yaacov Agam
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A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And…
— Anna Torv
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When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
— Jack Kerouac
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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color
— Edvard Munch
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One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and…
— Oswald Spengler
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...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
— Aretha Franklin
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I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face.…
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â…
— Aleister Crowley
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
— Alberto Giacometti
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I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
— Dick Bruna
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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat,…
— Diane Frolov
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