"I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art."
— El Greco

January 1, 1970

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Original: una es la imitación de los colores que yo tengo por la mayor dificultad — Quote from notes of El Greco, in one of his commentaries; as cited by Fernando Marías and Agustín Bustamante García in Las Ideas Artísticas de el Greco (Cátedra, 1981), p. 80; taken from Wikipedia/El Greco: in 'Technique and Style'