El Greco Quotes & Sayings

#1. I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.

#2. I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

#3. Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

#4. You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.

#5. I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

#6. Can the darkness condemn the light?

#7. Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

#8. The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

#9. Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

#10. 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.

El Greco Quotes