61 Quotes by John French Sloan

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

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 is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.