All Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotes
- Drawing is the honesty of art. Art
- Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Art
- Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Art
- It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Art
- You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. Art
- Better gray than garishness. Art
- A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. All
- There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. Brilliance
- Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue Contains
- Draw lines - draw a lot of lines Draw
- 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… Art
- Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. Forgotten
- 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...… Chief
- 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… Abolished
- 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… All
- 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. Balance
- 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… Atelier