El Greco Quotes

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

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.

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

Can the darkness condemn the light?

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

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

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

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.

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.-Nina

Dance is moving sculpture.

Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

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.