Top 19 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotes
#1. 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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#4. 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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#7. 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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#8. 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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#9. 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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#11. 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.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#15. Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting ... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
