“Once more the light finds me. Once more I am permitted to stand before the canvas and wrestle with the eternal.”

“Forgiveness is the only subject left that does not lie, though every other theme still wears the mask of survival.”

“Let the merchants fatten upon Baltic grain and Norwegian pine; I shall fatten this house upon light.”

“Light finds what it chooses and leaves the rest to darkness.”

Carel Fabritius: “He sees what I cannot yet name. The light does not merely illuminate; it judges.”

“Do you still believe that light is obedient, Rembrandt?” “It is a wild force which I trap for a moment.”