Quotes by John French Sloan

John French Sloan

A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don’t be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

Character

Kids

Thinking

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Design

Drawing

Thinking

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

Originality

Tradition

Way

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

Atmosphere

Fear

Nine

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.

Couple

Mistake

Wall

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

Color

Form

Instruments

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

Color

Sea

Thinking

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

Memories

Riding

Window

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

Composition

Drawing

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.

Art

Color

Drawing

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Art

Artist

Atmosphere

Broken

Chance

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Color

Composition

Couple

Crowds

Design

Drawing

Energy

Fall

Fear

Firsts

Form

Hands

House

Important

Instruments

Kids

Light

Lines

May

Mean

Memories

Men

Mistake

Nine

Originality

Painting

Past

People

Powerful

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Quality

Riding

Rocks

Sea

Speak

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Texture

Thinking

Tradition

Tree

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Wall

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Quotes by John French Sloan

John French Sloan

A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don’t be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

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

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

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.

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

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

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

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

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.

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