Quote #13
Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions- repressed.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose as your friend if she were a man.
- Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
- Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
- Chance generally favors the prudent.
- Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.
- Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
- Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.