Top 37 Jean Dominique 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
#3. The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#5. 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
#6. You can handle the wheelchair, said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#10. Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#11. 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
#12. What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#14. 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
#15. In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#16. 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
#18. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#19. 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
#21. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#23. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#26. Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting ... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#29. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#30. I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#33. When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#34. In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#35. We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#37. Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).
Jean-Dominique Bauby
