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 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 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 execution balance long 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
