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

—  Francisco De Goya

letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 1784; taken from Francisco Zapater y Gomez : Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perseverencia, p. 58
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