... For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens. One has to grope for it by feeling."
...avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. No! I have simply wanted to draw from a thorough knowledge of tradition the reasoned and free sense of my own individuality."
...of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject-matter, an art which might be for every mental worker be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue."
... and I should be very glad to be the revolutionary it calls for; just wait - I shall kick and bite until, one day, the change will come. I center my whole ambition on bringing it about."
Jean Dominique Ingres
"1 foto reciclada." ("1 recycled photo."), brasil, 2009