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Painter Quotes by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
- 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...…
- 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…
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