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

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

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Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make — the one being Christ's dead body being laid in the tomb, and the other Christ arising from the dead to the consternation of the guards — these same two pictures are now finished through studious application, so that I am now disposed to deliver the same and so to afford to His Highness. For in these two paintings the greatest and most natural movement has been expressed, which is also the main reason why they have taken so long to execute.

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

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

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Born: July 15, 1606

Died: October 4, 1669 (aged 63)

Bio: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history.

Known for:

The Night Watch (1642)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1669)
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632)
The Jewish Bride (1665)
Syndics of the Drapers' Guild (1662)

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