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

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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 expressio…

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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…

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Drawing is the honesty of art.

- 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

Better gray than garishness.

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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…

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres