Top 11 Quotes by Francisco Goya

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

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

Art, Painting, Salvation

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

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

Francisco Goya

Light, Shadow, Form

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

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

Francisco Goya

Art, Firsts, Competence

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

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

Francisco Goya

Crazy, Sleep, Mad

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

Francisco Goya

Three, Masters

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

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”