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El Greco
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  • His collection of El Greco is, I believe, quite the best in Spain.†  (source)
  • It's a picture that El Greco painted of the city he loved, and it's truer than any photograph.†  (source)
  • But not at all; the hairy Franciscan pounced upon one of the best in the collection; a young St. Francis in meditation, by El Greco, and the model for the saint was one of the very handsome Dukes of Albuquerque.†  (source)
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  • The pictures of El Greco explained them, and they explained the pictures.†  (source)
    El Greco = painter remembered for elongated human forms
  • If your French priest had a discerning eye, now, and were sent to this Vicarate, he might keep my El Greco in mind.†  (source)
  • Correctness is all very well: El Greco made his people eight feet high because he wanted to express something he couldn't get any other way.'†  (source)
  • He stayed there three months, and he was returned with a name new to the young men: he had wonderful things to say of a painter called El Greco, who it appeared could only be studied in Toledo.†  (source)
  • The greatest portrait painters have painted both, man and the intention of his soul; Rembrandt and El Greco; it's only the second-raters who've only painted man.†  (source)
  • "Damn El Greco,' said Lawson, "what's the good of jawing about a man when we haven't a chance of seeing any of his work?'†  (source)
  • Do you know El Greco?' he asked.†  (source)
  • El Greco was the painter of Toledo.†  (source)
  • I have an idea that when first El Greco came to the city it was by such a night, and it made so vehement an impression upon him that he could never get away from it.'†  (source)
  • El Greco was the painter of the soul; and these gentlemen, wan and wasted, not by exhaustion but by restraint, with their tortured minds, seem to walk unaware of the beauty of the world; for their eyes look only in their hearts, and they are dazzled by the glory of the unseen.†  (source)
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