Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for… — John French Sloan Color Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too… — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. — John French Sloan Honestly Copy Share Image
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John French Sloan Culture Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. — John French Sloan Borrowed Copy Share Image
When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and… — John French Sloan Concepts Copy Share Image
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that… — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance… — John French Sloan Aesthetic Copy Share Image
When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the… — John French Sloan Crowds Copy Share Image
To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear. — John French Sloan Color Copy Share Image
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without… — John French Sloan Chance Copy Share Image
The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity… — John French Sloan Add Copy Share Image
The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes… — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to… — John French Sloan Creativity Copy Share Image
Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you. — John French Sloan Color Copy Share Image
Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread… — John French Sloan Composition Copy Share Image
Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture. — John French Sloan Boat Copy Share Image
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as… — John French Sloan Light Copy Share Image
