Rembrandt:
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.
– As quoted in R. V. R.: Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1930) by Hendrik Willem van Loon I have just ordered this book and it should provide interesting reading and blogging. Coming up. Read more about Rembrandt and how the brain perceives art here.
The Three Trees
Virgin and Child in the Clouds, 1641
