Proper noun
Velasquez
A surname from Spanish.
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. António Lobo Antunes
In the degree that the images of concrete irrationality approach phenomenal reality, the corresponding means of expression approach those of the great realist painters - Velasquez and Vermeer of Delft - to paint realistically according to irrational thought, according to the unknown imagination. Salvador Dalí
I know of only two painters in the world,' said a newly introduced feminine enthusiast to Whistler, 'yourself and Velasquez.' 'Why,' answered Whistler in dulcet tones, 'why drag in Velasquez? James McNeill Whistler
He [Goya] once declared that his real masters were Vélasquez, Rembrandt and Nature. Vélasquez of course he knew intimately being surrounded in Madrid.. .He would have known Rembrandt only through prints, since so little work of the Dutch master's painted work has made its way to Spain. Francisco Goya
Desert Islands, p. 144. A parallel in painting Deleuze points to is Francis Bacon's Study after Velázquez —it is quite beside the point to say that Bacon "gets Velasquez wrong". Source: Internet
E. Pankhurst 1914, pp. 270–271; Purvis 2002, p. 209; Bartley, p. 146. In 1914 Mary Richardson slashed the Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus to protest against Pankhurst's imprisonment. Source: Internet