Untitled "Human affairs would be much more happily conducted if it were equally in the power of man to be silent and to speak; but experience shows over and over again that there is nothing which men have less power over than the tongue, and that there is nothing which they are less able to do than to govern their appetites."--Spinoza on self-control. From the series Great Ideas.

Object Details

Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artist
László Meitner, Brazilian, born Rackeve, Hungary 1900-died Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1968
Date
1952
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Medium
gouache on paperboard
Dimensions
sheet: 17 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. (44.7 x 44.2 cm)
Type
Painting
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