Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quotes

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

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

Better gray than garishness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

Drawing is the honesty of art.

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

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

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