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 can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you. — Megan Hart

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

Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover. — Elizabeth Hoyt

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

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living. — Thomas Merton

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

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone. — 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

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading. — Agatha Christie

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern. — John Berger

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

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest. — Frederick Douglass

Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or at least to look without discomfort at, Chardin's painting. And yet the older among them might have reminded themselves that in the course of their lives they had gradually seen, as the years bore them away from it, the unbridgeable gulf between what they considered a masterpiece by Ingres and what they had supposed must forever remain a "horror" (Manet's Olympia, for example) shrink until the two canvases seemed like twins. But we never learn, because we lack the wisdom to work backwards from the particular to the general, and imagine ourselves always to be faced with an experience which has no precedents in the past. — Marcel Proust

Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal. — Anonymous

I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god. — Edgar Degas

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

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. — Brandon Sanderson

Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you'd like. — Lynsay Sands

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. — Lord Byron

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

And if I died, at least I died
For thee! for thee — Edgar Allan Poe

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

Come on, I say in exasperation, extricating myself from his grasp but not before he gets in another kiss. — Suzanne Collins

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

Like many other outstanding examples of the genre, Ingres's portrait teaches us that appearance can be a bearer of authentic meaning. — Alain De Botton

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

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility. — Kenneth Clark

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

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?
- What weight?
- The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?
- We are not vessels; we are missiles.
- We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.
- We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful. — Dave Eggers