Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques-Louis David

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French artist Jacques-Louis David.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

French - Artist | August 30, 1748 - December 29, 1825

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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

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 sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

Jacques-Louis David

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

Jacques-Louis David