“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters”
Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
1790s
Variant: The sleep of reason produces monsters.
“Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.”
quoted by Albert Frederick Calvert, in Goya; an account of his life and works; publisher London J. Lane, 1908; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, pp. 355-377
Goya wrote this inscription upon a later copy of the etching-plate Capricho no. 43
1790s
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