14 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Quotes

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres quotes

1. If I had to put a sign over my door, I would write 'School of Drawing' and I'm certain that I would create painters.

2. Drawing is the probity of art..it includes everything except the tint.

1. Drawing is the honesty of art.

2. 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.

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

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

5. You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

12. 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.