Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Quotes

One must go after the modelling like a fly crawling over a piece of paper.

They have let the wolf into the sheepfold!

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

Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely the art of the idle. It is the doctrine of those who desire to produce without working, to know without learning.

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.

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