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John French Sloan Quotes

Find your own technique Picture Quote #1

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life Picture Quote #1

Don’t think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of ‘wetness’ as color-texture Picture Quote #1

Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons Picture Quote #1

In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect Picture Quote #1

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks Picture Quote #1

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The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can’t get along without it Picture Quote #1

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven’t become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel’s worth of colour Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Don’t be stingy with your paint, it isn’t worth it Picture Quote #1

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color Picture Quote #1

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Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way Picture Quote #1

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life Picture Quote #1

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it Picture Quote #1

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks Picture Quote #1

Line is the most powerful device of drawing Picture Quote #1

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind Picture Quote #1

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Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life Picture Quote #1

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear Picture Quote #1

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design Picture Quote #1

Drawing and composition are the same thing Picture Quote #1

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance Picture Quote #1

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form Picture Quote #1

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... in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it Picture Quote #1

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing Picture Quote #1

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues Picture Quote #1

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows... Color is surface skin that fits over the form Picture Quote #1

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization Picture Quote #1

Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you Picture Quote #1

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Find your own technique (John French Sloan Quotes) Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. (John French Sloan Quotes) 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 Quotes) Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons (John French Sloan Quotes) In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect (John French Sloan Quotes) I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks (John French Sloan Quotes) The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can’t get along without it (John French Sloan Quotes) Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven’t become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel’s worth of colour. (John French Sloan Quotes) 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. (John French Sloan Quotes) 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. (John French Sloan Quotes) Don’t be stingy with your paint, it isn’t worth it (John French Sloan Quotes) Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color (John French Sloan Quotes) Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way (John French Sloan Quotes) The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life (John French Sloan Quotes) Nature is what you see plus what you think about it (John French Sloan Quotes) Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks (John French Sloan Quotes) Line is the most powerful device of drawing (John French Sloan Quotes) Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind (John French Sloan Quotes) Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life (John French Sloan Quotes) To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear (John French Sloan Quotes) Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design (John French Sloan Quotes) Drawing and composition are the same thing (John French Sloan Quotes) The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance (John French Sloan Quotes) Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form (John French Sloan Quotes) ... in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it (John French Sloan Quotes) The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing (John French Sloan Quotes) A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues (John French Sloan Quotes) The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows... Color is surface skin that fits over the form (John French Sloan Quotes) Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization (John French Sloan Quotes) Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you (John French Sloan Quotes)

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