61 Quotes by John French Sloan

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.