Painting Quote by Tommy Cooper

Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, made about 1,200 violins, half of which still survive. After his death in 1737, factories churned out hundreds of…

— Daniel Pearl

“It has been noted in various quarters that the half-illiterate Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari never recorded the exact plans or dimensions for how…

— Lance Ford

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona.…

— Freda Bright

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

— Josephine Baker

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens,…

— Zubin Mehta

The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not, it's been…

— Sirena Huang

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

— Vanessa Mae

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

“Walking along the tables, my spirits sank even lower. Almost all the better fiddles, the ones made by professionals, were antiqued copies. Even the…

— James N McKean

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.

— Hilary Hahn

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

— Pablo Picasso

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner