The Devil's Dictionary: Painting

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
PAIN
PALACE

PAINTING

-n.

The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.

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