"[Rembrandt's habit of taking] a washerwoman or peat-trader from some barn [and] calling his whim the imitation of Nature and everything else decoration."
— Rembrandt

January 1, 1970

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Quote of Andries Pels, c. 1681; as cited by Simon Schama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, NEW YORK 1999, p. 389