Horace Quote

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Epistles, III (Ars Poetica) [c. 15 b.c.], l. 9

Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it...

Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it...

Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it...

Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it...