Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March, 1746 – 16 April, 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. Goya has been regarded both as the last of the old masters and as the first of the moderns. The subversive and subjective element in his art as well as his bold handling of paint provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Édouard Manet and Pablo Picasso.

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• El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.
  • The sleep of reason produces monsters.
    • Caption, plate 43 of Los Caprichos (1799)

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• I have three masters: Nature, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
  • Variation: Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the source of its marvels.