"My Sir: Let me first offer my kind regards. I agree that I should come soon to see how the picture accords with the rest. As regards the price, I certainly deserve 200 pounds for it, but shall be content with whatever His Excellency pays me. And if you, Sir, do not deem it presumptuous, I shall not neglect to requite the favor. Your humble and devoted servant Rembrandt - It will show to best advantage in His Excellency's gallery, since there it will be in bright light."

“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”