Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good artist.

Tracez des lignes, jeune homme, et encore plus de lignes, à la fois de la vie et de la mémoire, et vous deviendrez un bon artiste.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

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Artistic development Practice Art

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Source

Degas

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

France Europe

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Citation

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominque. Quoted in Degas, written by Keith Roberts. Phaidon Press, 1982, p. 7.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Time
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