Quotes About Vermeer

#1. I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#2. I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, or Manet for that matter. But if you think ordinary can be beautiful, that gives me hope. And maybe sometime you'll think about me when you need an escape from the hurt in your head.

Amy Harmon

#3. The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

Frederick Sommer

#4. This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

Elizabeth Taylor

#5. I'm a Picasso, not a Vermeer

David Arnold

#6. 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

#7. Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

Frank Wynne

#8. Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

#9. It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

Jennifer Donnelly

#10. If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

Carl Andre

#11. I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

Gerhard Richter

#12. A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#13. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker.

Bill Bryson

#14. The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

Frederick Sommer

#15. This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

Elizabeth Taylor

#16. Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology.

Kevin J. Corcoran

#17. I'm a Picasso, not a Vermeer

David Arnold

#18. I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

Julia Cameron

#20. 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

#21. Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

Frank Wynne

#22. Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

#23. It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

Jennifer Donnelly

#24. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.

Dayna S. Rubin

#25. If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

Carl Andre

#26. I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

Gerhard Richter

#27. A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#28. Great self esteem comes from inside and feels hot and wonderful.

Emme

#29. You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

Anna Kendrick

#30. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker.

Bill Bryson

#31. Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

Publilius Syrus

#32. I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#33. I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, or Manet for that matter. But if you think ordinary can be beautiful, that gives me hope. And maybe sometime you'll think about me when you need an escape from the hurt in your head.

Amy Harmon