Top 26 Quotes About El Greco
#1. In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Willem De Kooning
#2. The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.
Lillian Bassman
#3. Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
Walter Keane
#4. Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.
James Thurber
#5. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.
Luther E. Vann
#6. 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
#7. Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.
A.G. Riddle
#8. Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
El Greco
#9. Later film shoots' casting calls would advertise that they're "fun shoots" and a "good way to get exposure" - but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what's traditionally thought of as "work." You know what's fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time.
J. Richard Singleton
#10. The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.
El Greco
#11. Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.
El Greco
#12. All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
Rudyard Kipling
#13. I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.
Kevin Sampsell
#14. People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
Andrew Vachss
#15. I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game
Jack Ramsay
#16. Can the darkness condemn the light?
El Greco
#17. I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#18. I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
El Greco
#20. All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it's disproportionate.
Thane Rosenbaum
#21. 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.
El Greco
#22. Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters
El Greco
#23. I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.
Eve Ensler
#24. I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
El Greco
#25. I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.
El Greco
#26. If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Benny Goodman
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