Rembrandt Quotes

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

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

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

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

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