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

- Francisco Goya

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

- Francisco Goya

The dream of reason produces monsters

- Francisco Goya

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

- Francisco Goya

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 backgr…

- Francisco Goya

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

- Francisco Goya

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

- Francisco Goya

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

- Francisco Goya

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

- Francisco Goya