Creation Quotes by El Greco

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of…

— El Greco

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

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

— El Greco

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

— El Greco

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

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

— El Greco

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

— El Greco

Can the darkness condemn the light?

— El Greco

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

— El Greco