The famous story of Diogenes searching for an "honest man" has been depicted by Jordaens, van Everdingen, van der Werff, Pannini, and Corinth.
Med znanimi slikarji, ki so upodobili znamenito srečanje med Diogenom in Aleksandrom, so de Crayer, de Vos, Assereto, Langetti, Sevin, Sebastiano Ricci, Gandolfi, Wink, Abildgaard, Monsiau, Martin in Daumier.