Francisco Goya Quotes

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

  Francisco Goya

  Art, Painting, 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 of marvels.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Wisdom, Art

  Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Dream, Art

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

  Francisco Goya

  Light, Shadow, Form

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

  Francisco Goya

  Art, Firsts, Competence

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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 features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

  Francisco Goya

  Art, Titles, Painting

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

  Francisco Goya

  Three, Masters

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• Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

  Francisco Goya

  Crazy, Sleep, Mad

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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, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

  Francisco Goya

  Nature, Eye, Details

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• Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Monsters, Criminal Mind, Abandoned Buildings

  Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

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• The dream of reason produces monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Dream, Monsters, Fantasy

  Francisco Goya, Janis A. Tomlinson, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Museo del Prado (2002). “Goya: images of women”, Natl Gallery of Art

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