The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.
In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing. . . . Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.
I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown. ' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown. ' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown. ' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal. '
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.
