I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. - Jacques-Louis David
- Jacques-Louis David
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the … - Jacques-Louis David
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the …
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. - Jacques-Louis David
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. - Jacques-Louis David
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how t… - Jacques-Louis David
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how t…
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