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What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither one nor the other without acknowledging that the smallest part of Nature confounds and amazes those who know most. What statue or cast of it might there be that is not copied from divine nature?

— 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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