"First be a magnificent artist and then you……" — Francisco Goya
"First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first."
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Francisco Goya
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11 Quotes by Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya has 11 quotes on this site.
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Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.
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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
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Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin…
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Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
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The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the…
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I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.
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Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single…
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The dream of reason produces monsters
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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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But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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