Top 28 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

#2. Better gray than garishness.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#3. Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.

Gregory David Roberts

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#5. [Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News.

Gore Vidal

#6. You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

Carrie Brownstein

#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.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#9. Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

John Wooden

#10. A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#12. 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.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#13. 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

#14. 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 Ingres

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#16. 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

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#19. Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

Bob Benson

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#21. Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting ... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#23. Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#24. Drawing is the honesty of art.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#25. There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.

Samuel P. Huntington

#26. "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

Simon Rich

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#28. When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?

Deion Sanders

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