El Greco Quotes

“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.”

“Dance is moving sculpture.”

“Dance is your words expressed with movement.”

“Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.”

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

“A book is a journey. Journeys need their voyagers, and voyagers require a diversity of scenes; experiences.”

“Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.”

“Creation, like love, is a seductive pursuit filled with uncertainty and fluttering heartbeats. (Report to Greco)”

“To refuse ever to deny your youth, right up to extreme old age, to battle all life long to transubstantiate your adolescent flowering into a fruit-ladden tree - that, I belive, is the road of the fulfilled man. (Report to Greco)”

“Love of liberty, the refusal to accept your soul's enslavement, not even in exchange for paradise; stalwart games over and above love and pain, over and above death; smashing even the most sacrosant of the molds when they are unable to contain you any longer - these are the great cries of Crete. (Report to Greco)”