Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotes & Sayings

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting ... Drawing contains everything, except the hue — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous ... they ought to be abolished. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Drawing is the honesty of art. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole ... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Better gray than garishness. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres