Francisco Goya
Visual Arts
Spanish
1746 – 1828
104 quotes
A Romantic painter and printmaker, he is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for 'The Third of May 1808'.
Quotes by Francisco Goya
Monsters are born from ignorance.
Los Caprichos (Philosophical note)
1799
My brush is my voice.
Attributed
Age has not withered my spirit.
Personal letter
1820
The Black Paintings speak for themselves.
Reflection on major work
1819
Saturn devours his children in silence.
Black Paintings caption
1823
Exile is a bitter fruit.
Letter from Bordeaux
1824
I fight with my palette.
Witty remark
Reason must prevail over superstition.
Los Caprichos theme
1799
The court is a den of vipers.
Los Caprichos (Inferred caption)
1799
Love blinds the wise.
Los Caprichos (Plate 5 caption)
1799
Folly is the nurse of vice.
Los Caprichos (Plate 37 caption)
1799
The duenna proposes.
Los Caprichos (Plate 6 caption)
1799
Tantalus (or a modern Prometheus).
Los Caprichos (Plate 9 caption)
1799
Love me and fear me.
Los Caprichos (Plate 11 caption)
1799
The rope.
Los Caprichos (Plate 13 caption)
1799
Weaknesses made me.
Los Caprichos (Plate 19 caption)
1799
The Tombs.
Los Caprichos (Plate 20 caption)
1799
In the opinion of the world.
Los Caprichos (Plate 21 caption)
1799
The fifer.
Los Caprichos (Plate 22 caption)
1799
Which saint do you worship?
Los Caprichos (Plate 23 caption)
1799