• "I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art".
• "I would not be happy to see a beautiful, well-proportioned woman, no matter from which point of view, however extravagant, not only lose her beauty in order to, I would say, increase in size according to the law of vision, but no longer appear beautiful, and, in fact, become monstrous".
El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos / Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (1541-1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.