Rembrandt Quotes

• Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

  Rembrandt

  Kindness, Excess, Faces

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• Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

  Rembrandt

  Atmosphere, Painting

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• A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

  Rembrandt

  Artist, Painting, Finished

  "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.

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• An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

  Rembrandt

  Men, Honor, Earning

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• Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

  Rembrandt

  Practice, Helping, Clear

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 131, 1908.

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• Choose only one master - Nature.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Choices

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

  Rembrandt

  Knowledge, Practice, Trying

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.

  Rembrandt

  Crazy, Secret, Trying

  "R.v.R.: Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Borin Van Loon, 1930.

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• Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

  Rembrandt

  Crush, Creativity, Age

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• A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

  Rembrandt

  Artist, Realizing, Intention

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• A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

  Rembrandt

  Shadow, Painting

  "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.

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• I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

  Rembrandt

  Want, Way, Paint

  "R.v.R. : Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1930.

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• Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

  Rembrandt

  Men, Deception, Sincerity

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• A painting is not made to be sniffed.

  Rembrandt

  Painting, Made

  "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.

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• I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Pain, Envy

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