“Goya was one of those uncommon artists who had the daring or the folly to take on the whole scale of human fate. It was a huge scale and nobody works on it today because our sense of the possibility of art, what it can do, what it can say and why it can matter is so depleted.
But it never occurred to Goya that the art might not be able to say anything and everything about our nature, our desires and our fears, he just assumed that he could and he went ahead. And by assuming it, he left us with a difficult task of living up to his peculiar intensity, and if we can’t, as is likely, at least he shows us that. Nearly 200 years after he died, to meet Goya is still to meet ourselves. ”