Ingres Quotes: top 31 famous quotes about Ingres

Ingres Quotes & Sayings

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There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Love has a powerful way of removing the mask we all insist on wearing. — Jessy

Drawing is the honesty of art. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party. — Patti LaBelle

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting ... Drawing contains everything, except the hue — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

If you forget your dreams on waking, does that mean they never happened? That the people in them never existed? — J.L. Merrow

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. — Anne Lamott

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

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion. — Joe Frazier

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god. — Edgar Degas

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well. — Bryan Cranston

somehow, he had never taken advantage of it. — Ayn Rand

Like many other outstanding examples of the genre, Ingres's portrait teaches us that appearance can be a bearer of authentic meaning. — Alain De Botton

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

There are guys out there faster than me. — Carl Hagelin

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. — Chuck Klosterman

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm. — Margaret Fuller

Better gray than garishness. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Thy light so bright the world does illuminate from thee but even men with healthy eyes can choose not to see. — Raneem Kayyali

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King

I love you, Lilli. So much I'm dizzy with it. — Susan Fanetti

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules. — Rick Riordan