Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven. — John French Sloan Art 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
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. — John French Sloan Art 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
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. — John French Sloan Artist Copy Share Image
To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear. — John French Sloan Color 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
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
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
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 Artist 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
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
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
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
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
In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more… — John French Sloan Broken Copy Share Image
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 Artist 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
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
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John French Sloan Assimilate 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
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. — John French Sloan Alive Copy Share Image
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. — John French Sloan Design Copy Share Image
Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of… — John French Sloan Artist Copy Share Image
Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated… — John French Sloan Artist Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. — John French Sloan Color Copy Share Image
Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn… — John French Sloan Couple Copy Share Image
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues. — John French Sloan Drawing Copy Share Image
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that… — John French Sloan Art Copy Share Image
