The world is a masquerade. Face, dress, and voice are all false. All wish to appear as what they are not, all deceive and do not even know themselves.


Text accompanying plate 6 of Los Caprichos (The Fantasies)- (1799)

Francisco Goya Quotes

The world is a masquerade. Face, dress, and voice are all false. All wish to appear as what they are not, all deceive and do not even know themselves.

The world is a masquerade. Face, dress, and voice are all false. All wish to appear as what they are not, all deceive and do not even know themselves.

The world is a masquerade. Face, dress, and voice are all false. All wish to appear as what they are not, all deceive and do not even know themselves.

The world is a masquerade. Face, dress, and voice are all false. All wish to appear as what they are not, all deceive and do not even know themselves.