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 to correct his mistakes. – Jacques-Louis David
To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist. – 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. – Jacques-Louis David
