Creator Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

— Damien Hirst

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work…

— Marianne von Werefkin

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were…

— Jerry Saltz

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew…

— David Cobley

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the…

— John Berger

To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work…

— Jim Woodring

“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two…

— Jarod Kintz

“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the stuff that…

— Irving Stone

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator…

— Quentin Blake