El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.

I was webwandering and came across this article titled The Sleep of Reason

The author, Michael Gorman wrote: The Spanish artist Goya (1746-1828) experienced the turmoil of the Napoleonic years and the war that ravaged Europe, including Spain.

His vision included a private world of nightmares. One of the most famous products of this vision was the etching Number 43 of the series Los caprichos (The Caprices, 1799); the etching is called El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos - The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.

Goya is widely credited with having the clairvoyance of genius, and this image of the sleeping artist surrounded by the winged ghoulies and beasties unleashed by unreason has been seen as a prediction of, and warning about, the state of civilization in the two hundred years since.