Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quote

If we consult experience, we shall find that it is by making oneself familiar with the inventions of others that, in art, one learns oneself how to invent, as one accustoms oneself to think through reading the ideas of others.


As quoted in: Nineteenth-century Theories of Art (University of California Press, 1987), p. 117


If we consult experience, we shall find that it is by making oneself familiar with the inventions of others that, in art, one learns oneself how to...

If we consult experience, we shall find that it is by making oneself familiar with the inventions of others that, in art, one learns oneself how to...

If we consult experience, we shall find that it is by making oneself familiar with the inventions of others that, in art, one learns oneself how to...

If we consult experience, we shall find that it is by making oneself familiar with the inventions of others that, in art, one learns oneself how to...