"The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted……" — Francisco Goya
"The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty."
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Francisco Goya
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11 Quotes by Francisco Goya
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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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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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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
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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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