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 More Quotes by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres More Quotes From 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 artist discovery mean Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres concern people 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 expression mean art A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painter pennies gold It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres hours years art 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 writing mean school 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 done may thinking Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres intimacy names forgotten Draw lines - draw a lot of lines Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres sketching drawing lines Better gray than garishness. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres gray art Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres sketching drawing art Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres copying men art Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres great-men made men You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres flower order art 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 men art son Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres fruit taste art Drawing is the honesty of art. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres drawing honesty art 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 bazaars mediocrity useless There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres true-colors exaggeration color
