Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotes

Drawing is the honesty of art.

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.

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

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

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.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Better gray than garishness.

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.

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