as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, pp. 355-377
• Goya wrote this explanatory comment on the plate of Capricho no. 6
• Goya wrote this explanatory comment on the plate of Capricho no. 6
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No recognition / Nadie se conoce' [Goya wrote on this plate no. 6:] The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself.
— Francisco Goya
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "No recognition / Nadie se conoce' [Goya wrote on this plate no. 6:] The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself." in the context of "as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, pp. 355-377
• Goya wrote this explanatory comment on the plate of Capricho no. 6" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Francisco Goya" (Quotes of Francisco Goya: sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes of Francisco Goya, 1790s)
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About Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. His letters to Martín Zapater y Clavería https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915977, (1746-1803) a prosperous merchant and Goya's closest friend - spanning some 30 years, are an important private source for Goya's quotes; these letters show him at his most intimate and uninhibited.
About Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. His letters to Martín Zapater y Clavería https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915977, (1746-1803) a prosperous merchant and Goya's closest friend - spanning some 30 years, are an important private source for Goya's quotes; these letters show him at his most intimate and uninhibited.
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