Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres quotes
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“Drawing is the honesty of art.”
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“Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.”
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresSource : 1821 Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).
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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 IngresSource : Quoted in Henri Delaborde, Ingres, Sa Vie, Ses Travaux, Sa Doctrine (1870)
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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.”
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“Draw lines - draw a lot of lines”
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“Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.”
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“Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.”
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“It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.”
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“You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.”
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“Better gray than garishness.”
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“A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.”
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“There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.”
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“Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue”
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“Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.”
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