Artist Quote by Norbert Bisky

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

“It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to…

— Marcel Proust

“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's…

— Marcel Proust

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

— David Bailey

“Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard]”

— Stephen Maitland-Lewis

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses…

— Mary Pope Osborne

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

— Peter Ustinov

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered…

— Dan Brown

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

— Mark Bradford

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

— Brigitte Bardot

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel,…

— Naomi Ragen