Art Quote by John French Sloan Download Open image “Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.” — John French Sloan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Art Result Artist Consciousness Consciousness Life Creative Creative Impulse Creativity Impulse Life Philosophy of Mind Results
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art.… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. — Vincent Price 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 color's sake… — John French Sloan 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 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 much technical… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. — John French Sloan 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 the rocks.… — John French Sloan 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 I am… — John French Sloan 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 in the… — John French Sloan 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 people dominate… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
