Art Quote by Frederick Sommer

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

— Omar Khayyam

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are…

— John Muir

“At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively distance of its colours. But that was no longer the point. I was…

— Aldous Huxley

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been…

— Henry David Thoreau

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

— John Bayley

I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob,…

— Rob Gronkowski

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

— Gerhard Richter

“Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I…

— Robert Lowell

“He's often wished that he could capture the full essence of each woman's laugh on canvas, but he settles instead, on watching how, when…

— Adam Gallari

Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied…

— Ally Carter

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

— John Lithgow

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

— Peter Greenaway