“It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into it the experience of my 65 years and I do not want to touch a paintbrush again.” — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share
“It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into it the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share
