Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by El Greco

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek painter El Greco.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
El Greco

Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, often adding the word Κρής, which means Cretan.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.
Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation. — © El Greco
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.
Can the darkness condemn the light?
I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
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