Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotes

• Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

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  People, Concern

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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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  Gold, Pennies, Painter

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• It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

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  Art, Years, Hours

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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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  Art, Mean, Expression

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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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  School, Mean, Writing

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• Drawing is the honesty of art.

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  Art, Honesty, Drawing

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• Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

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  Men, Great Men, Made

  1821 Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

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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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  Art, Men, Copying

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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.

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  Mean, Artist, Discovery

  Quoted in Henri Delaborde, Ingres, Sa Vie, Ses Travaux, Sa Doctrine (1870)

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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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  Thinking, Done, May

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• Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

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  Art, Taste, Fruit

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• Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

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  Drawing, Sketching, Lines

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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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  Art, Drawing, Sketching

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• Better gray than garishness.

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  Art, Gray

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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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  Art, Son, Men

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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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  Long, Balance, Execution

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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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  Art, Flower, Order

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• Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

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  Names, Forgotten, Intimacy

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• There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

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  Color, True Colors, Exaggeration

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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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  Mediocrity, Bazaars, Useless

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