Alvaro Enrigue Quotes

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.

I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who you get.

People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

Gulzarbhai is a very special artist.

I'm just the biggest Kanye fan. I think he's a genius.

If Kanye was not in the equation, I literally wouldn't even be here. His music pushed hip-hop - the man is a master at taking a complex idea and presenting it in a way that is accessible for everyone.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.

I in no way, shape, or form envision myself as the modern-day Ozzy Osbourne - nobody can.

Eric Cantona is a giggler.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.