"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos"
(The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters),
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter, 1746-1828. 

What are the properties that characterise a delicate monster? Force and the power to intimidate us? Or fragility and the ability to show true vulnerability?

If a "monster" can be described by the following definitions:

1. an animal or plant of unusual and alarming form or structure
2. a terrifying force, something unusually large for its kind
3. something whose behaviour or character deviates from the norm or a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, maliciousness and cruelty
4. something that is extraordinarily successful
    
   

and "delicate" means:

1. pleasant to the senses
2. characterised by lovely, enticing colours, lines and proportions
3. possessing a fine structure, composition or nature, tactful and adept
4. having a weak constitution or health, fragile
5. easily damaged or unsettled, requiring careful, adroit handling
6. characterised by pronounced sensitivity and precision