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The author [Goya] is convinced that it is as proper for painting to criticize human error and vice as for poetry and prose to do so, although criticism is usually taken to be exclusively the business of literature.

— 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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