The important thing to remember about Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is how important he was. 'It is very flattering to see tears flow in front of my works, and by those with good and refined sensibilities. 'You are the first artist today!' they tell me. And at my feet I see the envious ones, wicked and ridiculous,' he said. Delacroix, neither wicked nor ridiculous, complained that Ingres's art was 'the complete expression of an incomplete intelligence'.
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