Artist Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

“Well,” Match says, “we’re just gonna have to take care of business. That’s what my old man always told me. He always said, ‘Oliver,…

— J.A. Huss

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will…

— Huangbo Xiyun

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

— William Ernest Henley

I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the…

— Jose Parla

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

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

— Morton Feldman

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

— Matei Calinescu

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there…

— Deepak Chopra

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

— Damien Hirst