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FRANCISCO DE GOYA ~ LIGHT AND SHADOW

“Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.”

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

30 May 2015

El Quitasol, 1777

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