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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/it-is-the-last-painting-that-i-want-to-do-but-i-want-to-surpass/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-louis-david/)

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## More by Jacques-Louis David

> [I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/i-will-never-for-the-future-paint-the-portrait-of-a-tyrant-until-his/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 canvas the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/the-artist-must-be-a-philosopher-socrates-the-skilled-sculptor-jean/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/if-the-work-is-poor-the-public-taste-will-soon-do-it-justice-and-the/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-louis-david/)

> [To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/to-give-a-body-and-a-perfect-form-to-one-s-thought-this-and-only-this/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/in-the-arts-the-way-in-which-an-idea-is-rendered-and-the-manner-in/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-louis-david/)

> [“It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into it the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-louis-david/it-is-the-last-painting-that-i-want-to-do-but-i-want-to-surpass/)

[Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-louis-david/)

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