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Artist Quotes by Francisco Goya

9 Artist quotes by Francisco Goya

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Francisco Goya’s nine comments on the artist’s duty reveal a bold, sometimes critical stance toward society and imagination. Though a short collection, the statements capture his willingness to confront darkness and satire, giving readers a quick taste of his provocative outlook.

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I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

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“El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)”

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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint…

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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which…

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Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,…

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I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his…

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I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation…

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Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

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“El sueno de la razon produce monstuos”

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With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a…

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I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

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But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede,…

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I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and…

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“El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)”

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The dream of reason produces monsters

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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

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Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and…

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I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart.…

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I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

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Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

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