#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Pericles 11/

And it is true that deftness and speed in working do not impart to the work an abiding weight of influence nor an exactness of beauty; whereas the time which is put out to loan in laboriously creating, pays a large and generous interest in the preservation of the creation.

[Section 13]

#Art #Design #NoHaste #DesignThatLasts

#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Pericles 10/

And yet they say that once on a time when Agatharchus the painter was boasting loudly of the speed and ease with which he made his figures, Zeuxis heard him, and said, "Mine take, and last, a long time."

[Section 13]

#Art #NoHaste #ThingsThatLast