To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist.
Jacques Louis David Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 30th August, 1748 |
| Death: | 29th December, 1825 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Painter |
About
Jacques Louis David was born in Paris, France. He 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 a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.
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