Quotes by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Page 1

Better gray than garishness.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Gray
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Drawing is the honesty of art.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Drawing
Honesty
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Draw lines - draw a lot of lines
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Drawing
Lines
Sketching
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It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Hours
Years
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Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Fruit
Taste
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Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Forgotten
Intimacy
Names
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Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Concern
People
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You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Flower
Order
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Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Men
Great Men
Made
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Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Men
Copying
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There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Color
Exaggeration
True Colors
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A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Gold
Painter
Pennies
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Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / Painter
Art
Drawing
Sketching
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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 / Painter
Balance
Execution
Long
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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 / Painter
Art
Men
Son
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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 / Painter
Artist
Discovery
Mean
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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 / Painter
Bazaars
Mediocrity
Useless
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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 / Painter
Done
May
Thinking
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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 / Painter
Art
Expression
Mean
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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 / Painter
Mean
School
Writing
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