19 Rembrandt Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Freedom Genius Believe Think Rembrandt Like Anyone

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

Genius Think Possibly Rembrandt Picasso Like Michelangelo Might Painter

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing. Damien Hirst

You People Worth Walk Nothing Say Out About Rembrandt Never Soon Look Well How Material How Many People How Much Stitching Shop Just Wood Want Canvas Much Paint Jeans Many Works Pair

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. Damien Hirst

Thought Painting Gave Secretly Would Rembrandt Been Up Then

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 secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport. Jerry Saltz

Work You Conservative Better Say Secretly Complexity Rembrandt Looked Sport Although Prove Were Blood Norman Norman Rockwell Than Taste Either Prefer Really Painter Actually

When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. John Lithgow

Me Experience Remember Old Uncle National Visit Would Vividly Rembrandt Picasso Go Years Aunt Just Gallery Washington

I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt. Judith Viorst

Love Anger Better Mother Thought Picture Every Way William One-Way Drew Shakespeare Only Daughters Rembrandt Had Knew Smarter Suppose Most Wrote Were Than Children Lady Einstein Who Lived Her Albert Albert Einstein

My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don't see a reflection of myself in any of these things I'm looking at. Kerry James Marshall

Art Myself Great History You Book Reflection Looking Everybody Else Introduction See Rembrandt Like Art History Yes History Book Michelangelo Any Leonardo Leonardo Da Vinci Works Things

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh. Mickie James

Love Art Painting Drawing Van Van Gogh Rembrandt Studying Like Gogh

I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who you get. Mr. T

You Care Rembrandt Duplicate dont Care Get Artist Movie Who Watch

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion. Peter Saul

Art You World Matter Old Exactly Exactly What See About Rembrandt Never Pictures Like Know Look Because Opinion Becomes Lot Art World Modern Modern Art Confront Suggestive

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight. Robert Winston

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People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting. Rolf Harris

You People Big Not Talking Down Painting TV Van Van Gogh See Voice Brushes Could Weekly Rembrandt Picasso Like Talk Learned Talking Around Doing Camera Friendly Did Gogh Just Where Explaining Them Paint Programme

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt. Ronnie Wood

School Days School Big Inspired Rembrandt Days Am Big Fan Impressionist Fan

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. Victor Hugo

Indeed Would Rembrandt Liked Been Should Second

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