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The sleep of reason produces monsters.

— Francisco Goya

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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together in a single imaginery being circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me.

Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.

As I am working for the public, I must continue to amuse them.

A bride-to-be, Discreet and penitent, she presents herself to her parents in this guise.

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