Rembrandt Quotes

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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
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister
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
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope
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
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
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann
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
There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, MirÃ³, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very,… — Yaacov Agam
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
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
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. — Jack Kerouac
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color — Edvard Munch
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be â€” though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso — Aretha Franklin
I always prefer photographing in available light â€“ or Rembrandt-light I like to call it â€“ so you get the natural modulations of the face.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
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
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. — Dick Bruna
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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