16 Quotes by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

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

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.

Better gray than garishness.

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.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

Draw lines – draw a lot of lines.