Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quote

Art is never at so high a degree of perfection as when it resembles nature so strongly that one might take it for nature herself. Art never succeeds better than when it is concealed.


Ingres (London, 1939), p. 163


Art is never at so high a degree of perfection as when it resembles nature so strongly that one might take it for nature herself. Art never succeeds...

Art is never at so high a degree of perfection as when it resembles nature so strongly that one might take it for nature herself. Art never succeeds...

Art is never at so high a degree of perfection as when it resembles nature so strongly that one might take it for nature herself. Art never succeeds...

Art is never at so high a degree of perfection as when it resembles nature so strongly that one might take it for nature herself. Art never succeeds...