Joseph Joubert Quote: Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the e…

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.