“Raphael, to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.... It is Titian that bears the banner.”

—  Diego Velázquez

As quoted by Hugh Stokes in Francisco Goya, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p 71
Velazquez's remark is to the Italian contemporary painter Salvator Rosa

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