"I am most astonished by what has been written about the 'Alexander', which is so well done that I must suppose there are not many lovers of art at Messina. I am also surprised that Your Lordship should complain as much about the price as about the canvas, but if Your Lordship wishes to return it as he did the sketch of Homer, I will do another Alexander.. .If Your Lordship likes the Alexander as is, very well. If he does not want to keep it, six hundred florins remain outstanding. And for the Homer five hundred florins plus the expenses of canvas, it being understood that everything is at Your Lordship's expense. Having agreed to it, would he kindly send me his desired measurements. Awaiting the response to settle the matter."

“Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make - the one being Christ's dead body being laid in the tomb , and the other Christ arising from the dead to the consternation of the guards — these same two pictures are now finished through studious application, so that I am now disposed to deliver the same and so to afford to His Highness. For in these two paintings the greatest and most natural movement has been expressed , which is also the main reason why they have taken so long to execute.”

“Web Catalogue of Rembrandt's Paintings”

“would not touch the painting, nor finish it unless the claimant pays him the balance due or guarantees it by giving a security.”

“Rembrandt at MuseumSyndicate”

“Choose only one master — Nature.”

“Truth in labeling" by Gary Schwartz in Art in America”